Love and Degradation
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Love and Degradation

Excessive Desires in Queer-Feminist Art

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Love and Degradation

Excessive Desires in Queer-Feminist Art

About this book

In this provocative and intensely personal new book of essays about love and language, desire and drama, reminiscence, change, and fandom, William J. Simmons takes up Eve Sedgwick's reparative reading as a challenge to empirical and taxonomical approaches to art, music, and film and instead promotes new ways of discussing them that create community and empathy rather than hierarchies. Specifically, Simmons advocates for incorporating memoir, history, theory, poetry, and even "the cringey admissions of a fanboy" into criticism.

Love and Degradation argues for queer feminism's value to reading and thinking about works by creators as varied as Lana Del Rey, Charlotte Brontë, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Phoebe Waller-Bridge, and filmmaker Steve McQueen. It also includes essays on Glenn Ligon, Barbara Kruger, and Kristen Stewart. In essence, the essays in this volume represent a series of the author's "saviors, obsessions, and losses."

A compelling read for students and scholars of art history, queer and gender studies, creative writing, and the study of film, television, and pop culture, this book encourages readers to embrace fandom and raises important questions about the state of queer and feminist discourse.

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Information

Publisher
Penn State University Press
Year
2024
Print ISBN
9780271098944
eBook ISBN
9780271099330
Topic
Art
Subtopic
Art Theory & Criticism

Table of contents

  1. COVER Front
  2. Copyright Page
  3. Table of Contents
  4. Acknowledgments
  5. Introduction
  6. Chapter 1: The Presumption of Light On Toyin Ojih Odutola’s The Treatment
  7. Notes to Chapter 1
  8. Chapter 2: Normative Desire / Narrative Desire and the Production of Love in Villette
  9. Notes to Chapter 2
  10. Chapter 3: Bad Feminism On Queer-Feminist Relatability and the Production of Truth in Fleabag
  11. Notes to Chapter 3
  12. Chapter 4: Glenn Ligon’s Untitled (Negro Sunshine) Toward a Queer Theory of Post-Critique
  13. Notes to Chapter 4
  14. Chapter 5: “Banality Is Sometimes Striking ”On Felix Gonzalez-Torres
  15. Notes to Chapter 5
  16. Chapter 6: On Affect and Criticality in Steve McQueen’s Widows
  17. Notes to Chapter 6
  18. Chapter 7: A Paucity of Words( for Kristin Scott Thomas)
  19. Notes to Chapter 7
  20. Chapter 8: Borderline Personality Disorder in Spencer (for Stankie
  21. Notes to Chapter 8
  22. Chapter 9: Love and the Paraliterary On Barbara Kruger’s Picture/Readings
  23. Notes to Chapter 9
  24. Chapter 10: Deborah Kass Teenage Dream
  25. Notes to Chapter 10
  26. Notes
  27. Index