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  • Cruel Optimism

    Cruel Optimism

    by Lauren Berlant

    A relation of cruel optimism exists when something you desire is actually an obstacle to your flourishing. Offering bold new ways of conceiving the present, Lauren Berlant describes the cruel optimism that has prevailed since the 1980s, as the social-democratic promise of the postwar period in the U... More

    Language: ENG
    Copyright: 2011
  • The Queen of America Goes to Washington City: Essays on Sex and Citizenship

    The Queen of America Goes to Washington City: Essays on Sex and Citizenship

    by Lauren Berlant

    In The Queen of America Goes to Washington City, Lauren Berlant focuses on the need to revitalize public life and political agency in the United States. Delivering a devastating critique of contemporary discourses of American citizenship, she addresses the triumph of the idea of private life over th... More

    Language: ENG
    Copyright: 1997
  • Reading Sedgwick (Theory Q)

    Reading Sedgwick (Theory Q)

    by Lauren Berlant

    Over the course of her long career, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick became one of the most important voices in queer theory, and her calls for reparative criticism and reading practices grounded in affect and performance have transformed understandings of affect, intimacy, politics, and identity. With marked ... More

    Language: ENG
    Copyright: 2019
  • On the Inconvenience of Other People (Writing Matters!)

    On the Inconvenience of Other People (Writing Matters!)

    by Lauren Berlant

    In On the Inconvenience of Other People Lauren Berlant continues to explore our affective engagement with the world. Berlant focuses on the encounter with and the desire for the bother of other people and objects, showing that to be driven toward attachment is to desire to be inconvenienced. Drawing... More

    Language: ENG
    Copyright: 2022
  • Compassion: The Culture and Politics of an Emotion (Essays from the English Institute)

    Compassion: The Culture and Politics of an Emotion (Essays from the English Institute)

    by Lauren Berlant

    In Compassion, ten scholars draw on literature, psychoanalysis, and social history to provide an archive of cases and genealogies of compassion. Together these essays demonstrate how "being compassionate" is shaped by historical specificity and social training, and how the idea of compassion takes p... More

    Language: ENG
    Copyright: 2004
  • The Female Complaint: The Unfinished Business of Sentimentality in American Culture

    The Female Complaint: The Unfinished Business of Sentimentality in American Culture

    by Lauren Berlant

    The Female Complaint is part of Lauren Berlant's groundbreaking "national sentimentality" project charting the emergence of the U. S. political sphere as an affective space of attachment and identification. In this book, Berlant chronicles the origins and conventions of the first mass-cultural "in... More

    Language: ENG
    Copyright: 2008
  • Sex, or the Unbearable

    Sex, or the Unbearable

    by Lee Edelman • Lauren Berlant

    Sex, or the Unbearable is a dialogue between Lauren Berlant and Lee Edelman, two of our leading theorists of sexuality, politics, and culture. In juxtaposing sex and the unbearable they don't propose that sex is unbearable, only that it unleashes unbearable contradictions that we nonetheless struggl... More

    Language: ENG
    Copyright: 2014
  • The Hundreds

    The Hundreds

    by Kathleen Stewart • Lauren Berlant

    In The Hundreds Lauren Berlant and Kathleen Stewart speculate on writing, affect, politics, and attention to processes of world-making. The experiment of the one hundred word constraint—each piece is one hundred or multiples of one hundred words long—amplifies the resonance of things that are happen... More

    Language: ENG
    Copyright: 2019
  • Our Monica, Ourselves: The Clinton Affair and the National Interest (Sexual Cultures #37)

    Our Monica, Ourselves: The Clinton Affair and the National Interest (Sexual Cultures #37)

    by Lauren Berlant • Lisa A. Duggan

    Alongside the O.J. Simpson trial, the affair between Bill Clinton and Monica Lewinsky now stands as the seminal cultural event of the 90s. Alternatively transfixed and repelled by this sexual scandal, confusion still reigns over its meanings and implications. How are we to make sense of a tale that ... More

    Language: ENG
    Copyright: 2001
  • Keywords for American Cultural Studies, Third Edition (Keywords #11)

    Keywords for American Cultural Studies, Third Edition (Keywords #11)

    by Walter Johnson • Andrew Ross • Lisa Nakamura • Angela D. Dillard • George Lipsitz • Sunaina Maira • Nikhil Pal Singh • E. Patrick Johnson • Timothy Mitchell • Carla L. Peterson • George J. Sanchez • Ashley Dawson • Josh Kun • Caleb Smith • Kandice Chuh • Lisa Lowe • Ann Cvetkovich • Christopher Newfield • George Yúdice • Alys Eve Weinbaum • Brian T. Edwards • Leerom Medovoi • Lauren Berlant • Junaid Rana • Erin Manning • Cynthia G. Franklin • Julie Sze • Scott Herring • Christina B. Hanhardt • Rebecca Wanzo • Juana María Rodríguez • Marc Bousquet • Laura Briggs • Sandra M. Gustafson • Erica Kohl-Arenas • Kevin K. Gaines • Henry Yu • David Kazanjian • Dean Spade • Siobhan B. Somerville • Crystal Parikh • Lee Bebout • Rebecca Hill • Jack Halberstam • Kirsten Silva Gruesz • Eric Lott • David F. Ruccio • Marlene L. Daut • Kyla Schuller • Jentery Sayers • Robert McRuer • Matthew Frye Jacobson • Alyshia Gálvez • Kembrew McLeod • Daniel Martinez HoSang • Valerie Rohy • Joseph Lowndes • Amaranth Borsuk • Robert Fanuzzi • John Kuo Wei Tchen • Lauren Klein • Miriam Posner • Tara McPherson • Jodi Melamed • Vermonja R. Alston • Stephanie Smallwood • J. Kēhaulani Kauanui • June Wayee Chau • Oneka LaBennett • Tavia Nyong’o

    Introduces key terms, research traditions, debates, and histories for American Studies and Cultural Studies in an updated editionSince its initial publication, scholars and students alike have turned to Keywords for American Cultural Studies as an invaluable resource for understanding key terms and ... More

    Language: ENG
    Copyright: 2020
  • The Anatomy of National Fantasy: Hawthorne, Utopia, and Everyday Life

    The Anatomy of National Fantasy: Hawthorne, Utopia, and Everyday Life

    by Lauren Gail Berlant

    Careful appraisal of The Scarlet Letter.... More

    Language: ENG
    Copyright: 1991
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