Argues that the child, understood as innocence in need of protection, represents the possibility of the future against which the queer is positioned as the embodiment of a relentlessly narcissistic, antisocial, and future-negating drive. Boldly insists that the efficacy of queerness lies in its very willingness to embrace this refusal of the social and political order.
Artist / Author | Lee Edelman |
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Publisher | Duke University Press Books |
ISBN | 978-0822333692 |
Reference | P3565 |
Date | 2004 |
Type | Publication |