Mourning Sex: Performing Public Memories

by Peggy Phelan

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This is a book about the exhilaration and the catastrophe of embodiment. Analyzing different instances of injured bodies, Peggy Phelan considers what sustained attention to the affective force of trauma might yield for critical theory. Advocating what she calls "performative writing", she creates an extraordinary fusion of critical and creative thinking which erodes the distinction between art and theory, fact and fiction.
The bodies she examines...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:041514759X

ISBN13:9780415147590

Release Date:February 1997

Publisher:Routledge

Length:200 Pages

Weight:1.05 lbs.

Dimensions:0.6" x 6.2" x 9.2"

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