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Beschreibung
By mobilizing a theory of abjection, the book shows how the appeal to phallic, fetishistic theories continues to reify the hegemonic categories of race, class, sexuality, and gender, as if they stood as self-evident categories.
By mobilizing a theory of abjection, the book shows how the appeal to phallic, fetishistic theories continues to reify the hegemonic categories of race, class, sexuality, and gender, as if they stood as self-evident categories.
Über den Autor

Tina Chanter is Professor of Philosophy at DePaul University, Chicago. She is author of Ethics of Eros: Irigaray's Re-writing of the Philosophers , and Time, Death and the Feminine: Levinas with Heidegger, and editor of Feminist Interpretations of Emmanuel Levinas.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contents

Introduction

1. Abjection as the Unthought Ground of Fetishism

2. Abjection as the Failure of Protection against Emptiness: Narcissism, Negation, and Klein's Projective Identification

3. Abject Art: Destabilizing the Drive for Purification, and Unmasking the Foundational Fantasy of Castration

4. Fantasy at a Distance: The Revolt of Abjection in Film

5. The Exotica-ization and Universalization of the Fetish, and the Naturalization of the Phallus: Abject Objections

6. Prohibiting Miscegenation and Homosexuality: The Birth of a Nation, Casablanca, and American History X

7. Abject Identifications in The Crying Game: The Mutual Implication of Transgender/Race/Nationalism/Class

8. The Fetishistic Temporality of Hegemonic Postcolonial Nationalist Narratives and the Traumatic Real of Abjection

9. Concluding Reflections on the Necrophilia of Fetishism

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Details
Empfohlen (von): 22
Erscheinungsjahr: 2008
Genre: Importe, Kunst
Rubrik: Kunst & Musik
Thema: Theater & Film
Medium: Taschenbuch
Reihe: Indiana University Press
Inhalt: Einband - flex.(Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9780253219183
ISBN-10: 0253219183
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Chanter, Tina
Hersteller: Indiana University Press
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Mare Nostrum Group B.V., Doelen 72, ?-4831 GR Breda, gpsr@mare-nostrum.co.uk
Maße: 235 x 158 x 27 mm
Von/Mit: Tina Chanter
Erscheinungsdatum: 11.01.2008
Gewicht: 0,553 kg
Artikel-ID: 131745887