The Queer Art of Failure

by J. Jack Halberstam

Book Overview

The Queer Art of Failure is about finding alternatives-to conventional understandings of success in a heteronormative, capitalist society; to academic disciplines that confirm what is already known according to approved methods of knowing; and to cultural criticism that claims to break new ground but cleaves to conventional archives. Jack Halberstam proposes "low theory" as a mode of thinking and writing that operates at many different levels...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822350459
• ISBN13: 9780822350453
• Release Date: September 2011
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 2.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.7" x 9.1"