Indifference to Difference: On Queer Universalism - Softcover

Menon, Madhavi

Softcover

ISBN 10: 081669592X ISBN 13: 9780816695928

Verlag: University of Minnesota Press, 2015

Inhaltsangabe

Indifference to Difference organizes around Alain Badiou&;s suggestion that, in the face of increasing claims of identitarian specificity, one might consider the politics and practice of being indifferent to difference. Such a politics would be based on the superabundance of desire and its inability to settle into identity. Madhavi Menon shows that if we turn to another kind of universalism&;not one that insists we are all different but one that recognizes we are all similar in our powerlessness to contain desire&;then difference no longer becomes the focus of our identity.

Instead, we enter the worlds of desire. Following up on ideas of sameness and difference that have animated queer theory, Menon argues that what is most queer about indifference is not that it gives us queerness as an identity but that it is able to change queerness into a resistance of ontology. Firmly committed to the detours of desire, queer universalism evades identity.

This polemical book demonstrates that queerness is the condition within which we labor. Our desires are not ours to be owned; they are indifferent to our differences.

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Madhavi Menon is professor of English at Ashoka University. She is the author of Wanton Words: Rhetoric and Sexuality in English Renaissance Drama; Unhistorical Shakespeare: Queer Theory in Shakespearean Literature and Film; and editor of Shakesqueer: A Queer Companion to the Complete Works of Shakespeare.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: University of Minnesota Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2015
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 081669592X
• ISBN 13: 9780816695928
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 176
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