The Queer Art of Failure

The Queer Art of Failure is about finding alternatives-to conventional understandings of success in a heteronormative, capitalist...
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The Queer Art of Failure by Halberstam, Jack

The Queer Art of Failure

$26.95

The Queer Art of Failure

$26.95
Author: Jack Halberstam
Format: Paperback
Language: English
The Queer Art of Failure is about finding alternatives-to conventional understandings of success in a heteronormative, capitalist society; to academic disciplines that confirm what is already known according to approved methods of knowing; and to cultural criticism that claims to break new ground but cleaves to conventional archives. Jack Halberstam proposes "low theory" as a mode of thinking and writing that operates at many different levels at once. Low theory is derived from eccentric archives. It runs the risk of not being taken seriously. It entails a willingness to fail and to lose one's way, to pursue difficult questions about complicity, and to find counterintuitive forms of resistance. Tacking back and forth between high theory and low theory, high culture and low culture, Halberstam looks for the unexpected and subversive in popular culture, avant-garde performance, and queer art. Halberstam pays particular attention to animated children's films, revealing narratives filled with unexpected encounters between the childish, the transformative, and the queer. Failure sometimes offers more creative, cooperative, and surprising ways of being in the world, even as it forces us to face the dark side of life, love, and libido.

Author: Jack Halberstam
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 09/19/2011
Pages: 224
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.75lbs
Size: 9.20h x 5.70w x 0.60d
ISBN: 9780822350453


Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 07/11/2011

About the Author

Jack Halberstam is Professor of English, American Studies and Ethnicity, and Gender Studies at the University of Southern California. Halberstam is the author of In a Queer Time and Place: Transgender Bodies, Subcultural Lives, as well as Female Masculinity and Skin Shows: Gothic Horror and the Technology of Monsters, both also published by Duke University Press.


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