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Cruel Optimism
Langbeschreibung
Ties together political economy and affect in a time of decreased expectations.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Acknowledgments viiIntroduction. Affect in the Present 11. Cruel Optimism 232. Intuitionists: History and the Affective Event 513. Slow Death (Obesity, Sovereignty, Lateral Agency) 954. Two Girls, Fat and Thin 1215. Nearly Utopian, Nearly Normal: Post-Fordist Affect in La Promese and Rosetta 1616. After the Good Life, an Impasse: Time Out, Human Resources, and the Precrious Present 1917. On the Desire for the Political 223Note on the Cover Image: If Body: Riva and Zora in Middle Age 265Notes 269Bibliography 303Index 327
Lauren Berlant is George M. Pullman Professor of English at the University of Chicago. She is the author of The Female Complaint: The Unfinished Business of Sentimentality in American Culture and The Queen of America Goes to Washington City: Essays on Sex and Citizenship, both also published by Duke University Press, as well as The Anatomy of National Fantasy: Hawthorne, Utopia, and Everyday Life. She the editor of the books Intimacy; Compassion: The Culture and Politics of an Emotion; and (with Lisa Duggan) Our Monica, Ourselves: The Clinton Affair and National Interest.
ISBN-13:
9780822351115
Veröffentl:
2011
Erscheinungsdatum:
27.10.2011
Seiten:
352
Autor:
Lauren Berlant
Gewicht:
515 g
Format:
236x158x22 mm
Sprache:
Englisch