{"product_id":"disturbing-attachments-9780822369172","title":"Disturbing Attachments","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eKadji Amin challenges the idealization of Jean Genet as a paradigmatic figure within queer studies to illuminate the methodological dilemmas at the heart of queer theory, bringing the genealogy of Genet's imaginaries of attachment to bear on pressing issues within contemporary queer politics and scholarship, including prison abolition, homonationalism, and pinkwashing.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Amin's commitment to re-evaluating the unsettling practices of Genet's life represents a serious attempt to contend with the colonial, racist, and hierarchical legacies present in queer social forms. . . . \u003ci\u003eDisturbing Attachments\u003c\/i\u003e, by investigating the traction queer theory can have in contending with the compromises and failures hidden within its own field, demonstrates the potential for critical self-inquiry.\" -- Rajat D. Singh * Gay \u0026amp; Lesbian Review *\u003cbr\u003e\"There is no doubt that \u003ci\u003eDisturbing Attachments \u003c\/i\u003eis, first and foremost, a work of and about queer studies, a fearless and scholarly probing of its disciplinary norms, its discursive limits, and its most embarrassing relations. It should be read by all those who care about the discipline’s future . . . and, most importantly, by those who care about its past.\" -- Andrew Counter * French Studies *\u003cbr\u003e\"Amin’s book offers a dizzying number of theoretical interventions, in an elegant style that makes up for the uncompromising density of the text. With refreshing currency, \u003ci\u003eDisturbing Attachments\u003c\/i\u003e displaces queer studies outside its presentist US context.\" -- Mehammed Amadeus Mack * Journal of Middle East Women's Studies *\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eDisturbing Attachments\u003c\/i\u003e is a formidable read. It is theoretically mobile, stylistically gratifying, and conceptually probing.\" -- Helmut Puff * American Historical Review *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments  ix\u003cbr\u003e Introduction  1\u003cbr\u003e 1. Attachment Genealogies of Pederastic Modernity  19\u003cbr\u003e 2. Light of a Dead Star: The Nostalgic Modernity of Prison Pederasty  45\u003cbr\u003e 3. Racial Fetishism, Gay Liberation, and the Temporalities of the Erotic  76\u003cbr\u003e 4. Pederastic Kinship  109\u003cbr\u003e 5. Enemies of the State: Terrorism, Violence, and the Affective Politics of Transnational Coalition  141\u003cbr\u003e Epilogue. Haunted by the 1990s: Queer Theory's Affective Histories  176\u003cbr\u003e Notes  191\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography  235\u003cbr\u003e Index  249","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49406105157975,"sku":"9780822369172","price":19.79,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780822369172.jpg?v=1730494545","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/disturbing-attachments-9780822369172","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}