Animacies: Biopolitics, Racial Mattering, and Queer Affect

by Mel Y. Chen

Book Overview

In Animacies, Mel Y. Chen draws on recent debates about sexuality, race, and affect to examine how matter that is considered insensate, immobile, or deathly animates cultural lives. Toward that end, Chen investigates the blurry division between the living and the dead, or that which is beyond the human or animal. Within the field of linguistics, animacy has been described variously as a quality of agency, awareness, mobility, sentience, or...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822352729
• ISBN13: 9780822352723
• Release Date: July 2012
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.9" x 9.1"