The Ruse of Repair : US Neoliberal Empire and the Turn from Critique /

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"Beginning with Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, prominent literary and queer studies scholars have eschewed Marxist and Foucauldian critique and hailed the 'reparative' mode as a more humane and humble way of approaching literature and culture. This commitment to repair as kinder and more ethi...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Stuelke, Patricia Rachael, 1979- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Durham : Duke University Press, 2021.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Politics and literature.
Neoliberalism and literature.
Literature and society.
American literature.
Politics and literature > United States > History > 20th century.
Literature and society > United States > History > 20th century.
American literature > 20th century > History and criticism.
American literature > 21st century > History and criticism.
Neoliberalism and literature > United States.
United States.
History.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Descripción
Sumario:"Beginning with Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, prominent literary and queer studies scholars have eschewed Marxist and Foucauldian critique and hailed the 'reparative' mode as a more humane and humble way of approaching literature and culture. This commitment to repair as kinder and more ethical approach to critique has traveled far beyond the academy, shaping how people imagine justice, solidarity, and social change. But this valorization of the reparative did not arrive out of nowhere. The Ruse of Repair locates the hidden history of the reparative turn in the consolidation of, and failed struggle against, the neoliberal racial capitalist imperialist order in the late 1970s and 1980s"--
Descripción Física:1 online resource (321 pages).
ISBN:9781478021575

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