{"product_id":"queer-faith-melissa-e-sanchez-9781479871872","title":"Queer Faith: Reading Promiscuity and Race in the Secular Love Tradition","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eHonorable Mention, 2020 Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize, given by the Modern Language Association\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eUncovers the queer logics of premodern religious and secular texts\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ePutting premodern theology and poetry in dialogue with contemporary theory and politics, \u003ci\u003e Queer Faith\u003c\/i\u003e reassess the commonplace view that a modern veneration of sexual monogamy and fidelity finds its roots in Protestant thought. What if this narrative of \"history and tradition\" suppresses the queerness of its own foundational texts? \u003ci\u003eQueer Faith\u003c\/i\u003e examines key works of the prehistory of monogamy--from Paul to Luther, Petrarch to Shakespeare--to show that writing assumed to promote fidelity in fact articulates the affordances of promiscuity, both in its sexual sense and in its larger designation of all that is impure and disorderly. At the same time, Melissa E. Sanchez resists casting promiscuity as the ethical, queer alternative to monogamy, tracing instead how ideals of sexual liberation are themselves attached to nascent racial and economic hierarchies. Because discourses of fidelity and freedom are also discourses on racial and sexual positionality, excavating the complex historical entanglement of faith, race, and eroticism is urgent to contemporary queer debates about normativity, agency, and relationality. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDeliberately unfaithful to disciplinary norms and national boundaries, this book assembles new conceptual frameworks at the juncture of secular and religious thought, political and aesthetic form. It thereby enlarges the contexts, objects, and authorized genealogies of queer scholarship. Retracing a history that did not have to be, Sanchez recovers writing that inscribes radical queer insights at the premodern foundations of conservative and heteronormative culture.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Melissa E. Sanchez\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1479871877\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781479871872\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e New York University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/20\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 344\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.44lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.94d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 04\/01\/2020","brand":"Melissa E. Sanchez","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":43935646417151,"sku":"9781479871872","price":99.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_a16071d9-a61c-4745-9dcd-b7f987255feb.jpg?v=1681421021","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/queer-faith-melissa-e-sanchez-9781479871872","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}