Chen's book is the first to bring the concept of animacy together with queer of color scholarship, critical animal studies, and disability theory. Through analyses of dehumanizing insults, the meanings of queerness, animal protagonists in recent Asian/American art and film, the lead in toys panic in 2007, and the social lives of environmental illness, "Animacies" illuminates a hierarchical politics infused by race, sexuality, and ability. In this groundbreaking book, Chen rethinks the criteria governing agency and receptivity, health and toxicity, productivity and stillness--and demonstrates how attention to the affective charge of matter challenges commonsense orderings of the world.
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Chen's book is the first to bring the concept of animacy together with queer of color scholarship, critical animal studies, and disability theory. Through analyses of dehumanizing insults, the meanings of queerness, animal protagonists in recent Asian/American art and film, the lead in toys panic in 2007, and the social lives of environmental illness, "Animacies" illuminates a hierarchical politics infused by race, sexuality, and ability. In this groundbreaking book, Chen rethinks the criteria governing agency and receptivity, health and toxicity, productivity and stillness--and demonstrates how attention to the affective charge of matter challenges commonsense orderings of the world.
Imprint | Duke University Press |
Country of origin | United States |
Series | Perverse Modernities: A Series Edited by Jack Halberstam and Lisa Lowe |
Release date | July 2012 |
Availability | Expected to ship within 12 - 17 working days |
First published | 2012 |
Authors | Mel Y. Chen |
Dimensions | 235 x 152 x 20mm (L x W x T) |
Format | Hardcover - Cloth over boards |
Pages | 312 |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-8223-5254-9 |
Barcode | 9780822352549 |
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LSN | 0-8223-5254-0 |