Animacies : biopolitics, racial mattering, and queer affect / Mel Y. Chen.

Author
Chen, Mel Y., 1969- [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
Durham [N.C.] : Duke University Press, 2012.
Description
1 online resource (xi, 297 pages : illustrations.

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Subject(s)
Series
Perverse modernities [More in this series]
Restrictions note
Access restricted to Ryerson students, faculty and staff.
Summary note
Mel Y. Chen draws on studies of sexuality, race, and affect to consider how matter that is considered insensate, immobile, deathly, or otherwise "wrong," animates cultural life in important ways.
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Source of description
Print version record.
Contents
  • Language and mattering humans
  • Queer animation
  • Queer animality
  • Animals, sex, and transsubstantiation
  • Lead's racial matters
  • Following mercurial affect.
ISBN
  • 0822395444 ((electronic bk.))
  • 9780822395447 ((electronic bk.))
  • 9781280778056
  • 1280778059
OCLC
801926473
Other standard number
  • 9786613688446
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