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Mourning Sex

Paperback • 1997 • English

Mourning Sex

By Peggy Phelan

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About the book

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 here include Christ's, as represented in Caravag...Show more

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ISBN

9780415147590

Publisher

Routledge

Published year

1997

Language

English

Original title

Mourning Sex

Format

Paperback

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