Queer Lasting: Ecologies of Care for a Dying World (Paperback)
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What queer modes of resilience and care can teach us about enduring environmental collapse
What does it mean to live at the end of life, the end of a family line, the end of a species, or the end of the future itself? When faced with unfurling catastrophes, environmentalists often limit the conversation by focusing on the future. Activists work for the welfare of future generations, while scientists labor over projections of future outcomes. In Queer Lasting, Sarah Ensor asks what this emphasis on the future makes unthinkable. She looks to queer scenes of futurelessness to consider what ecocriticism can learn from queer theory, which imagines and inhabits the immanent ethical possibilities of a terminal present. While living 'at the last' is often a terrifying prospect, queer culture reminds us that 'to last' is itself also one way to go on. Defining queerness as a mode of collective life in which these paradigms of lasting--ending and persisting--are constitutively intertwined, Ensor turns to two periods of queer extinction for models of care, continuance, and collective action predicated on futurelessness: the 1890s, in which existing forms of erotic affiliation were extinguished through the binary of homo/heterosexuality, and the 1980s, in which the spread of the AIDS epidemic threatened the total loss of gay lives and of specific erotic ways of life. Through readings that trace unexpected formal resonances across the works of Sarah Orne Jewett, Willa Cather, Melvin Dixon, Essex Hemphill, Allen Barnett, and Samuel Delany, Queer Lasting maintains that queer writing, in its intimacy with death and loss, offers a rich archive for imagining new ways of thinking through environmental collapse. Whether confronting the epidemic contours of the AIDS crisis, theorizing the temporary encounters of cruising, or reckoning with the lives of non-reproductive subjects, this book about futurelessness is also a book about persistence. It demonstrates how, far from giving up in the face of the terminal paradigms that environmentalism fears, queer culture has instead predicated its living--and its lasting--upon them.*This book is returnable
| Author(s): | Ensor, Sarah |
|---|---|
| Book Type: | New Book |
| Genre: | LGBTQ+, Environmental Policy, General |
| Format: | Paperback |
| ISBN-10: | 1479829471 |
| EAN: | 9781479829477 |
| Language: | English |
| Number of Pages: | 288 |
| Publication Date: | 2025-02-04 |
| Publisher: | New York University Press |
| Weight: | 0.95 Pounds |
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