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The Specter of Materialism: Queer Theory and Marxism in the Age of the Beijing Consensus

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Availability:In StockContributor:Petrus LiuPublish date:2023-01-13Pages:256
Language:EnglishPublisher:Duke University PressISBN-13:9781478019428ISBN-10:1478019425UPC:9781478019428Book Category:Social Science, History, Literary CriticismBook Subcategory:LGBTQ+ Studies, Asia, Semiotics & TheoryBook Topic:Gay Studies, ChinaSize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.53 inchesWeight:0.7518Product ID:SCEM9S8BDG
In recent years, queer theory appears to have made a materialist turn away from questions of representation and performativity to those of dispossession, precarity, and the differential distribution of life chances. Despite this shift, queer theory finds itself constantly reabsorbed into the liberal project of diversity management. This theoretical and political weakness, Petrus Liu argues, stems from an incomplete understanding of capitalism's contemporary transformations, of which China has been at the center. In The Specter of Materialism Liu challenges key premises of classic queer theory and Marxism, turning to an analysis of the Beijing Consensus--global capitalism's latest mutation--to develop a new theory of the political economy of sexuality. Liu explores how relations of gender and sexuality get reconfigured to meet the needs of capital in new regimes of accumulation and dispossession, demonstrating that evolving US-Asian economic relations shape the emergence of new queer identities and academic theories. In so doing, he offers a new history of collective struggles that provides a transnational framework for understanding the nexus between queerness and material life.
Language:EnglishPublisher:Duke University PressISBN-13:9781478019428ISBN-10:1478019425UPC:9781478019428Book Category:Social Science, History, Literary CriticismBook Subcategory:LGBTQ+ Studies, Asia, Semiotics & TheoryBook Topic:Gay Studies, ChinaSize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.53 inchesWeight:0.7518Product ID:SCEM9S8BDG
Petrus Liu is Professor of Chinese and Comparative Literature at Boston University and author of Queer Marxism in Two Chinas, also published by Duke University Press, and Stateless Subjects: Chinese Martial Arts Literature and Postcolonial History.
Publisher: Duke University Press

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