{"product_id":"disturbing-attachments-genet-modern-pederasty-and-queer-history","title":"Disturbing Attachments: Genet, Modern Pederasty, and Queer History","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003eDisturbing Attachments: Genet, Modern Pederasty, and Queer History\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003eKadji Amin\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN: \u003c\/b\u003e9780822369172\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003eDuke University Press\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished: \u003c\/b\u003e2017\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding: \u003c\/b\u003ePaperback\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage: \u003c\/b\u003eEnglish\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNumber of Pages: \u003c\/b\u003e272\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Note: \u003c\/b\u003eClean, unmarked copy with some edge wear. Good binding. Dust jacket included if issued with one. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher Description: \u003c\/b\u003eJean Genet (1910-1986) resonates, perhaps more than any other canonical queer figure from the pre-Stonewall past, with contemporary queer sensibilities attuned to a defiant non-normativity. Not only sexually queer, Genet was also a criminal and a social pariah, a bitter opponent of the police state, and an ally of revolutionary anticolonial movements. In \u003ci\u003eDisturbing Attachments\u003c\/i\u003e, Kadji Amin challenges the idealization of Genet as a paradigmatic figure within queer studies to illuminate the methodological dilemmas at the heart of queer theory. Pederasty, which was central to Genet's sexuality and to his passionate cross-racial and transnational political activism late in life, is among a series of problematic and outmoded queer attachments that Amin uses to deidealize and historicize queer theory. He brings the genealogy of Genet's imaginaries of attachment to bear on pressing issues within contemporary queer politics and scholarship, including prison abolition, homonationalism, and pinkwashing. \u003ci\u003eDisturbing Attachments\u003c\/i\u003e productively and provocatively unsettles queer studies by excavating the history of its affective tendencies to reveal and ultimately expand the contexts that inform the use and connotations of the term \u003ci\u003equeer\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Disturbing Attachments: Genet, Modern Pederasty, and Queer History | Kadji Amin | Paperback | 9780822369172 | Used: Very Good | Back Stacks A 1737186","offer_id":48168536866968,"sku":"1737186","price":12.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0492\/1609\/4360\/files\/91agxH5ysYL.jpg?v=1771971161","url":"https:\/\/roundaboutbookstore.com\/products\/disturbing-attachments-genet-modern-pederasty-and-queer-history","provider":"Roundabout Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}