Utopian Contemporaries : Queer Temporality and America

ISBN-13: 9783639124194 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 124 str.

Leopold Lippert

Opis

UTOPIAN CONTEMPORARIES proposes an alternativeframework for the study of American culture. Renouncing thereproductive cycles of the American futurist regime, this book emphasizes thecritical temporality of the queer now and analyzes its potential to makemanifest alternative economies of memory and forgetting.American Studies scholar Leopold Lippert demonstrates that theseemingly futureless present may function as a performative rehearsalspace in which heteronormative lines of belonging, kinship, andcitizenship areredrawn. This study is aimed at students and scholarsin the fields of American Studies, Performance Studies, and Queer Theory.

O autorze

is a doctoral student in the English and American Studies program at
the University of Vienna.