Description
Book SynopsisPetrus Liu challenges key premises of classic queer theory and Marxism, turning to an analysis of the Beijing Consensusglobal capitalism's latest mutationto develop a new theory of the political economy of sexuality.
Trade Review"Petrus Liu’s
The Specter of Materialism is intellectually courageous and theoretically sophisticated, advancing both queer theory and Marxist thought. This review has only scratched the surface of this paradigm-shifting work. Scholars of queer theory, gender and sexuality studies, Marxism, and China Studies will all find this book indispensable for their fields." -- Wenqing Kang * Modern Chinese Literature And Culture *
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix
Introduction: Periodizing the Post-1989 World Order 1
Part I: Theory
1. Alterity in Queer Theory and the Political Economy of the Beijing Consensus 21
2. The Specter of Materialism 52
Part II: History
3. The Subsumption of Literature: Lu Xun’s Queer Modernism in the Chinese Revolution 81
4. The Subsumption of the Cold War: The Material Unconscious of Queer Asia 104
5. The Subsumption of Sexuality: Translating Gender from the Beijing Fourth World Conference on Women to the Beijing Consensus 135
Conclusion: Toward a Transnational Queer Marxism 161
Notes 165
Bibliography 195
Index
