Personal Demons: Possession Narratives of Late Liberalism (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781478039099)

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Personal Demons: Possession Narratives of Late Liberalism

$35.00

Personal Demons: Possession Narratives of Late Liberalism

$35.00
Format: Paperback
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Personal Demons offers a new theory of the relation between sex, desire, and personhood, asking what we should make of the many contemporary instances when bodies seem to want different things from the consciousnesses within them. Grace Lavery maps the negative energies--demonic, incoherent, resistant--through which liberalism produces and disciplines its scapegoats. Through an examination of modern possession narratives, from racialized spectacles of bodily transformation and disguise to the liturgy of the Church of Scientology, Lavery unspools the knot of body, affect, and representation at the end of liberalism. In the face of the uneasy bargains queer and trans liberal organizations made with the phobic state, Personal Demons elaborates a vision of queer collective living that does not assume a shared concept of interiority, taking the incompatibility of such concepts as the founding axiom for a coalition against the ideological regulation of bodies and minds.

Author: Grace Lavery
ISBN-10: 1478039094
ISBN-13: 9781478039099
Publisher: Duke University Press
Language: English
Published: 10/20/2026
Pages: 286
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.98lbs
By Grace Lavery
By Grace Lavery
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Grace Lavery is Associate Professor of English at the University of California, Berkeley. She has authored multiple books, including Closures: Heterosexuality and the American Sitcom, published by Duke University Press, and Pleasure and Efficacy: Of Pen Names, Cover Versions, and Other Trans Techniques.

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