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The Disorder of Desire

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Wild Things

The Disorder of Desire

1st edition
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In Wild Things Jack Halberstam offers an alternative history of sexuality by tracing the ways in which wildness has been associated with queerness and queer bodies throughout the twentieth century. Halberstam theorizes the wild as an unbounded and unpredictable space that offers sources of opposition to modernity's orderly impulses. Wildness illuminates the normative taxonomies of sexuality against which radical queer practice and politics operate. Throughout, Halberstam engages with a wide variety of texts, practices, and cultural imaginaries—from zombies, falconry, and M. NourbeSe Philip's Zong! to Maurice Sendak's Where the Wild Things Are and the career of Irish anticolonial revolutionary Roger Casement—to demonstrate how wildness provides the means to know and to be in ways that transgress Euro-American notions of the modern liberal subject. With Wild Things , Halberstam opens new possibilities for queer theory and for wild thinking more broadly.

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Pages
240

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Table of Contents

Preface. ix
Acknowledgments. xiii
Part I. Sex in the Wild
Introduction. Sex before, after, and against Nature
Page 31
1. Wildness, Loss, and Death
Page 33
2. "A New Kind of Wildness": The Rite of Spring and and Indigenous Aesthetics of Bewilderment
Page 51
3. The Epistemology of the Ferox: Sex, Death, and Falconry
Page 77
Part II. Animality Introduction. Into the Wild
Page 115
4. Where the Wild Things Are: Humans, Animals, and Children
Page 125
5. Zombie Antihumanism at the End of the World
Page 147
Conclusions. The Ninth Wave
Page 175
Notes. 181
Bibliography. 201
Index. 211

Edition Notes

Published in
Durham, NC, USA
Series
Perverse Modernities
Copyright Date
2020

Classifications

Library of Congress
HQ76.25.H353 2020

Contributors

Editor
Jack Halberstam
Editor
Lisa Lowe

The Physical Object

Format
Paperback
Number of pages
240
Dimensions
23 x x centimeters

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL29490039M
ISBN 10
1478011084
ISBN 13
9781478011088
LCCN
2020008115
OCLC/WorldCat
1227880340, 1371308834
Amazon ID (ASIN)
1478011084
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