Beschreibung:
Experimental and theoretically informed, Mourning Sex advances performance theory in dialogue with psychoanalysis, queer theory, and cultural studies.
1. Introduction: This Book's Body 2. Whole Wounds: Bodies at the Vanishing Point 3. Immobile Legs, Stalled Words: Psychoanalysis and Moving Deaths 4. Uncovered Rectums: Disinterring the Rose Theatre 5. Bloody Nose, Loose Noose: Hearing Anita Hill and Clarence Thomas 6. Shattered Skulls: Rodney King and Holbein's The Ambassadors 7. Failed Live(r)s: Whatever Happened to Her Public Grief? In Memory of Rena Grant (1959-92) 8. Infected Eyes: Dying Man with a Movie Camera: Silverlake Life: The View From Here