The Reification of Desire: Toward a Queer Marxism

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Author: Kevin Floyd

ISBN-10: 0816643962

ISBN-13: 9780816643967

Category: Literary Theory

Theory/Queer Studies\ The Reification of Desire takes two critical perspectives rarely analyzed together-formative arguments for Marxism and those that have been the basis for queer theory-and productively scrutinizes these ideas both with and against each other to put forth a new theoretical connection between Marxism and queer studies.

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Theory/Queer StudiesThe Reification of Desire takes two critical perspectives rarely analyzed together-formative arguments for Marxism and those that have been the basis for queer theory-and productively scrutinizes these ideas both with and against each other to put forth a new theoretical connection between Marxism and queer studies.

Introduction: On Capital, Sexuality, and the Situations of Knowledge 11 Disciplined Bodies: Lukacs, Foucault, and the Reification of Desire 392 Performative Masculinity: Judith Butler and Hemingway's Labor without Capital 793 Reification as Liberation: Theory, Practice, and Marcuse 1204 Closing a Heterosexual Frontier: Midnight Cowboy as National Allegory 1545 Notes on a Queer Horizon: David Wojnarowicz and the Violence of Neoliberalism 195Acknowledgments 227Notes 229Index 255