Long Term: Essays on Queer Commitment

Published by Duke University Press 2021

Long Term

Essays on Queer Commitment

Edited by: Scott Herring and Lee Wallace

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781478021544

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About this book

The contributors to Long Term use the tension between the popular embrace and legalization of same-sex marriage and the queer critique of homonormativity as an opportunity to examine the myriad forms of queer commitments and their durational aspect.

Author / Editor information

Scott Herring is Professor of American Studies and Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Yale University and author of The Hoarders: Material Deviance in Modern American Culture.

Lee Wallace is Associate Professor of Gender and Cultural Studies at the University of Sydney and author of Reattachment Theory: Queer Cinema of Remarriage, also published by Duke University Press.

E. Patrick Johnson is Annenberg University Professor of Performance Studies and African American Studies at Northwestern University.

Reviews

“Every now and again an edited volume comes along and sets a new agenda for a field. This absolutely dazzling piece of scholarship is precisely such a landmark contribution. Encountering the scrambled landscape of gay life in the post-Obergefell world while grappling with the new possibilities for commitment made possible by the legalization of gay marriage, Long Term is a truly original and outstanding work.”

-- Benjamin Kahan, author of The Book of Minor Perverts: Sexology, Etiology, and the Emergences of Sexuality

“The essays in Long Term enter the quotidian realm of queer commitments not to settle scores with the outsized celebration of antinormativity that writes the political into prerecorded narratives of heroic refusal, but to inhabit the small acts and minor tempos that compose the work, anxiety, and yes even the pleasure of ordinary endurance. Lushly descriptive and wholly engaging, this collection is both a living document and a critically nuanced guide to the persistence of queer commitments.”

-- Robyn Wiegman, author of Object Lessons

"Disability and carework are the volume’s most prominent scenes of queer commitment: palliative care for a dying mother or companion animals; living on after a partner’s catastrophic stroke; living with gendered and queered chronic illness. . . . The authors pause on small scenes of the mundane, finding queer attachments in 'suspended time and repetitive actions' and the thickness of the everyday."

-- Margot Weiss Public Books

“Long Term plunges us into everyday scenes of belonging, which are rife with complicity, ambivalence, and damage. We move from deathbeds to the dance floor, from prisons to hospitals, from gay adoption to companion species caretaking. . . . Herring and Wallace loosen heteronormativity’s fierce grip on the narration of the long term while better attuning queer theory to practices of care that enable queerness to endure."

-- Tyler Bradway American Literary History

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
CONTENTS Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Foreword: Wouldn’t Take Nothing for My Journey E. Patrick Johnson Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Introduction: A Theory of the Long Term Scott Herring and Lee Wallace Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
1. Committed to the End: On Caretaking, Rereading, and Queer Theory Elizabeth Freeman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	25
2. Loss and the Long Term Amy Villarejo Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	46
3. Unhealthy Attachments: Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/ Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and the Commitment to Endure Sally R. Munt Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	63
4. A Lifetime of Drugs Kane Race Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	89
5. Death Do Us Part Carla Freccero Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	117
6. Never Better: Queer Commitment Phobia in Hanya Yanagihara’s A Little Life Scott Herring Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	134
7. Race, Incarceration, and the Commitment to Volunteer Amy Jamgochian Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	155
8. The Color of Kinship: Race, Biology, and Queer Reproduction Jaya Keaney Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	175
9. Toward a Political Economy of the Long Term Lisa Adkins and Maryanne Dever Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	199
10. Serial Commitment, or, 100 Ways to Leave Your Lover Annamarie Jagose and Lee Wallace Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	223
11. The Long Run Heather Love Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	250
Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	267
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	271

Language: English
Publisher: Duke University Press
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 296

eBook

Published: July 6, 2021
ISBN: 9781478021544