{"product_id":"mourning-sex-peggy-phelan-9780415147590","title":"Mourning Sex: Performing Public Memories","description":"This is a book about the exhilaration and the catastrophe of embodiment. Analyzing different instances of injured bodies, Peggy Phelan considers what sustained attention to the affective force of trauma might yield for critical theory. Advocating what she calls \"performative writing\", she creates an extraordinary fusion of critical and creative thinking which erodes the distinction between art and theory, fact and fiction.\u003cbr\u003e The bodies she examines here include Christ's, as represented in Caravaggio's painting \u003cem\u003eThe Incredulity of St Thomas\u003c\/em\u003e, Anita Hill's and Clarence Thomas's bodies as they were performed during the Senate hearings, the disinterred body of the Rose Theatre, exemplary bodies reconstructed through psychoanalytic talking cures, and the filmic bodies created by Tom Joslin, Mark Massi, and Peter Friedman in \u003cem\u003eSilverlake Life: The View From Here\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e This new work by the highly-acclaimed author of \u003cem\u003eUnmarked\u003c\/em\u003e makes a stunning advance in performance theory in dialogue with psychoanalysis, queer theory, and cultural studies.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Peggy Phelan\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 041514759X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780415147590\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Routledge\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/27\/1997\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 200\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.00lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.24h x 6.16w x 0.58d","brand":"Peggy Phelan","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44410370261247,"sku":"9780415147590","price":54.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_07109f3b-d360-427a-9b91-ae9d9ef4d87e.jpg?v=1697535995","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/mourning-sex-peggy-phelan-9780415147590","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}