Queer Optimism: Lyric Personhood and Other Felicitous Persuasions

by Michael D. Snediker

Book Overview

A new paradigm for queer theory

Michael Snediker offers a much-needed counterpoint to queer theoretical discourse, which has long privileged melancholy, self-shattering, incoherence, shame, and the death drive. Recovering the forms of positive affect that queer theory has jettisoned, Snediker insists that optimism must itself be taken beyond conventional tropes of hope and futurity and reimagined as necessary for critical engagement...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0816650004
• ISBN13: 9780816650002
• Release Date: December 2008
• Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.3" x 9.0"