Título: In a Queer Time and Place
Autor: J. Jack Halberstam
Sinopse: The first full-length study of transgender representations in art, fiction, film, video, and music In her first book since the critically acclaimed Female Masculinity, Judith Halberstam examines the significance of the transgender body in a provocative collection of essays on queer time and space. She presents a series of case studies focused on the meanings of masculinity in its dominant and alternative forms especially female and trans-masculinities as they exist within subcultures, and are appropriated within mainstream culture. In a Queer Time and Place opens with a probing analysis of the life and death of Brandon Teena, a young transgender man who was brutally murdered in small-town Nebraska. After looking at mainstream representations of the transgender body as exhibited in the media frenzy surrounding this highly visible case and the Oscar-winning film based on Brandon's story, Boys Dont Cry, Halberstam turns her attention to the cultural and artistic production of queers themselves. She examines the transgender gaze, as rendered in small art-house films like By Hook or By Crook, as well as figurations of ambiguous embodiment in the art of Del LaGrace Volcano, Jenny Saville, Eva Hesse, Shirin Neshat, and others. She then exposes the influence of lesbian drag king cultures upon hetero-male comic films, such as Austin Powers and The Full Monty, and, finally, points to dyke subcultures as one site for the development of queer counterpublics and queer temporalities. Considering the sudden visibility of the transgender body in the early twenty-first century against the backdrop of changing conceptions of space and time, In a Queer Time and Place is the first full-length study of transgender representations in art, fiction, film, video, and music. This pioneering book offers both a jumping off point for future analysis of transgenderism and an important new way to understand cultural constructions of time and place.
Contexto da obra
Quando a classificação é mais ampla, o contexto do livro costuma depender ainda mais de autoria, tema e edição. “In a Queer Time and Place”, de J. Jack Halberstam, publicado pela editora NYU Press, em 2023 e com 237 páginas, integra a categoria Livros Variados. Por isso, autoria, edição e tema acabam tendo ainda mais peso na forma de apresentar o livro.
Editora: NYU Press
Páginas: 237
Ano: 2023
Edição:
Linguagem: en
ISBN: 0814735843
ISBN13: 9780814735848
Sobre a editora
Os livros da editora NYU Press costumam oferecer experiências de leitura que combinam rigor acadêmico com narrativas acessíveis, muitas vezes explorando temas históricos, sociais e culturais em profundidade. O catálogo apresenta obras que abordam desde movimentos sociais e direitos civis até estudos culturais e análises de design inclusivo, com uma linguagem que varia do ensaio denso a relatos mais narrativos. É comum encontrar trabalhos que exploram tensões políticas, questões de identidade e justiça social, sempre com um tom reflexivo e, por vezes, crítico. Essa diversidade de temas sugere um público leitor interessado em compreender contextos complexos, com textos que equilibram pesquisa detalhada e clareza na exposição.
