Binding: Paperback
Description: The Queer Art of Failure is about finding alternatives to conventional understandings of success in a heteronormative capitalist society; to academic disciplines that confirm what is already known according to approved methods of knowing; and to cultural criticism that claims to break new ground but cleaves to conventional archives. Jack Halberstam proposes low theory as a mode of thinking and writing that operates at many different levels at once. Low theory is derived from eccentric archives. It runs the risk of not being taken seriously. It entails a willingness to fail and to lose one's way to pursue difficult questions about complicity and to find counterintuitive forms of resistance. Tacking back and forth between high theory and low theory high culture and low culture Halberstam looks for the unexpected and subversive in popular culture avant - garde performance and queer art. Halberstam pays particular attention to animated children's films revealing narratives filled with unexpected encounters between the childish the transformative and the queer. Failure sometimes offers more creative cooperative and surprising ways of being in the world even as it forces us to face the dark side of life love and libido.
Title: The Queer Art Of Failure
Author(s): Halberstam Jack
Publisher: Duke University Press
Barcode: 9780822350453
Pages: 224 Pages, 37 Illustrations, Incl. 14 In Color
Publication Date: 8/12/2011
Series: A John Hope Franklin Center Book
Category: Popular Culture