Queer Velocities: Time, Sex, and Biopower on the Early Modern Stage

by Jennifer Eun-Jung Row

Book Overview

Queer Velocities: Time, Sex, and Biopower on the Early Modern Stage explores how seventeenth-century French theater represents queer desire. In this book, the first queer theoretical treatment of canonical French theater, Jennifer Eun-Jung Row proposes that these velocities, moments of unseemly haste or strategic delay, sparked new kinds of attachments, intimacies, and erotics. Rather than rely on fixed identities or analog categories, we might...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0810144700
• ISBN13: 9780810144705
• Release Date: April 2022
• Publisher: Northwestern University Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 8.9"