Beschreibung:
Mel Y. Chen draws on studies of sexuality, race, and affect to consider how matter that is considered insensate, immobile, deathly, or otherwise "wrong," animates cultural life in important ways.
Acknowledgments viiIntroduction: Animating Animacy 1Part I * Words1. Language and Mattering Humans 232. Queer Animation 57Part II * Animals3. Queer Animality 894. Animals, Sex, and Transsubstantiation 127Part III * Metals5. Lead's Racial Matters 1596. Following Mercurial Affect 189Afterword: The Spill and the Sea 223Notes 239Bibliography 261Index 283