Romanticism, gender, and violence : Blake to George Sodini /
Responding to work by Eve Sedgwick and recent media attention to queer suicide, this project theorizes performative melancholia, a condition where, regardless of sexual orientation, overinvestment in gender norms causes subjects who are unable to embody those norms to experience socially expected (&...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
Publicado: |
Lewisburg :
Bucknell University Press,
[2013]
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Sumario: | Responding to work by Eve Sedgwick and recent media attention to queer suicide, this project theorizes performative melancholia, a condition where, regardless of sexual orientation, overinvestment in gender norms causes subjects who are unable to embody those norms to experience socially expected ('normal') gender as something unattainable or lost. This perceived loss causes an ambivalence within the subject that can lead to self-inflicted violence (masochism, suicide) or violence toward others (sadism, murder).> |
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Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (x, 209 pages) |
Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-204) and index. |
ISBN: | 9781611484670 1611484677 |