Mel Y. Chen: Animacies | Taschenbuch

Cover: 9780822352723 | Animacies | Biopolitics, Racial Mattering, and Queer Affect | Chen

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In Animacies, Mel Y. Chen draws on recent debates about sexuality, race, and affect to examine how matter that is considered insensate, immobile, or deathly animates cultural lives. Toward that end, Chen investigates the blurry division between the living and the dead, or that which is beyond the human or animal. Within the field of linguistics, animacy has been described variously as a quality of agency, awareness, mobility, sentience, or liveness. Chen turns to cognitive linguistics to stress how language habitually differentiates the animate and the inanimate. Expanding this construct, Chen argues that animacy undergirds much that is pressing and indeed volatile in contemporary culture, from animal rights debates to biosecurity concerns.

Chen's book is the first to bring the concept of animacy together with queer of color scholarship, critical animal studies, and disability theory. Through analyses of dehumanizing insults, the meanings of queerness, animal protagonists in recent Asian/American art and film, the lead in toys panic in 2007, and the social lives of environmental illness, Animacies illuminates a hierarchical politics infused by race, sexuality, and ability. In this groundbreaking book, Chen rethinks the criteria governing agency and receptivity, health and toxicity, productivity and stillness-and demonstrates how attention to the affective charge of matter challenges commonsense orderings of the world.

Über den Autor

Mel Y. Chen is Assistant Professor of Gender and Women's Studies at the University of California, Berkeley.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments vii
Introduction: Animating Animacy 1
Part I * Words
1. Language and Mattering Humans 23
2. Queer Animation 57
Part II * Animals
3. Queer Animality 89
4. Animals, Sex, and Transsubstantiation 127
Part III * Metals
5. Lead's Racial Matters 159
6. Following Mercurial Affect 189
Afterword: The Spill and the Sea 223
Notes 239
Bibliography 261
Index 283

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2012
Fachbereich:	Allgemeines
Genre:	Importe
Rubrik:	Sozialwissenschaften
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Reihe:	Perverse Modernities: a Series Edited by Jack Halberstam and Lisa Lowe
Inhalt:	Einband - flex.(Paperback)
ISBN-13:	9780822352723
ISBN-10:	0822352729
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Chen, Mel Y.
Hersteller:	Duke University Press Perverse Modernities: a Series Edited by Jack Halberstam and Lisa Lowe
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße:	233 x 149 x 20 mm
Von/Mit:	Mel Y. Chen
Erscheinungsdatum:	10.07.2012
Gewicht:	0,444 kg