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The ruse of repair : US neoliberal empire and the turn from critique /

Beginning with Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, prominent literary and queer studies scholars have eschewed Marxist and Foucauldian critique and hailed the 'reparative' mode as a more humane and humble way of approaching literature and culture. This commitment to repair as kinder and more ethical ap...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Stuelke, Patricia Rachael, 1979- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Durham, North Carolina : Duke University Press, [2021].
Subjects:
Neoliberalism and literature > United States.
American literature > 21st century > History and criticism.
American literature > 20th century > History and criticism.
Literature and society > United States > History > 20th century.
Politics and literature > United States > History > 20th century.
Table of Contents:
  • Freedom to want
  • "Debt work"
  • Solidarity as settler absolution
  • Veteran diversity, veteran asynchrony
  • Invasion love plots and antiblack acoustics.