- Social epistemology, Stupidity, Queer theory, Failure (Psychology)
"The Queer Art of Failure is about finding alternatives—to conventional understandings of success in a heteronormative, capitalist society; to academic disciplines that confirm what is already known according to approved methods of knowing; and to cultural criticism that claims to break new ground but cleaves to conventional archives.
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Spare, character-led, contemporary and prestige.
- sparerichly built
- character-ledplot-driven
- contemporarynostalgic
- unpretentiousprestige
- contemplativerelentless
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- Author
- Jack Halberstam
- First published
- 2011
- Pages
- 257
- Publisher
- Tantor and Blackstone Publishing, Minimum Fax, Egales
- Editions
- 15
- Language
- English, Portuguese, Polish, Italian
- ISBN
- 9788365853776
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Jack Halberstam, also known as Judith Halberstam, is Professor of American Studies and Ethnicity, Gender Studies, and Comparative Literature, as well as serving as the Director of The Center for Feminist Research at University of Southern California (USC). Halberstam was the Associate Professor in the Department of Literature at the University of California at San Diego before working at USC. He is a gender and queer theorist and author. Halberstam, who accepts masculine and feminine pronouns, as well as the name "Judith," with regard to his gender identity, focuses on the topic of tomboys and female masculinity for his writings. His 1998 Female Masculinity book discusses a common by-product
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