Queer Intercorporeality : Bodily Distruption of Straight Space

ISBN-13: 9783639113365 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 160 str.

Karen Saunders

Opis

Queer Intercorporeality: Bodily Disruption ofStraight Space explores the transgressive potentialof queer embodiment through the experiences oftransgendered people. This work engages withtheoretical frames that radically reconfigureconcepts of subjectivity and disrupts traditionalunderstandings of both the mind/body split and thebody as a separate and contained entity. Drawing onDeleuze and Guattari s version of the becoming bodythis work locates the body as a vibrant multiplicityof particles capable of infinite connections andcreative innovations. Through approaching embodimentas an intercorporeal and never ending processSaunders explores the spatial settings, such asfamily, which play a major role in the way thatbodies are formulated and the directions they take.Exploring queer as a spatial term this book furtherexplores queer bodies as existing at an angle to theheteronormative straight line. Engaging with thedynamics of straight space this work investigates thebodily affect on those who move beyond the limitedboundaries of identity and anatomical understandingsand embrace a space of intermezzo or in-between-ness.

O autorze

MBA:Gender Studies, Canterbury
University. Currently teaching Gender Studies at Canterbury
University, New Zealand.