Description
Book SynopsisIndifference to Difference demonstrates that our desires are not ours to be owned; they areindifferent to our differences. This polemical book shows that if we turn to akind of universalism that recognizes we are all similar in our powerlessness tocontain desire, then difference no longer becomes the focus of our identity.
Trade Review"Madhavi Menon has written an exhilarating manifesto. The tough-minded courage of Menon's intervention is one of this book's great strengths; the fierce intelligence that shapes her arguments is another. Indifference to Difference pursues a supple, peripatetic, and deeply principled methodology, informed by a nuanced theoretical acumen that declares itself at every turn."—Kathryn Schwarz, Vanderbilt University
Table of ContentsContents
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Indifference
1. Out of Africa: Yinka Shonibare’s Museum of Desire
2. Disembodying the Cause: Shakespeare’s Dramatic Elisions
3. Lesbians without Borders: The Story of Dastangoi
Coda: Queer and Universal
Notes
Index
