{"product_id":"shock-and-yawn-megan-sibbett-9780814259795","title":"Shock and Yawn: Resisting Banal Terror Through Queer Storytelling","description":"In \u003ci\u003eShock and Yawn, \u003c\/i\u003e Megan Sibbett confronts state-sanctioned, mundane violence committed in the name of protection and argues that queer storytelling is an ideal avenue for recognizing, theorizing, and subverting it: Through queer stories, we have a direct window into the real-world ramifications of violence that purports to be for the public good. This violence, reinforced and normalized through surveillance campaigns, failure-to-protect laws, border policies, and government messaging, is obscured by both its banality and its benevolent veneer, in which children, or imagined children, are central to its logic of protection. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Building on queer theorists' critiques of intimate and administrative violence, especially Gloria Anzaldúa's \"intimate terrorism,\" Sibbett develops methodologies for conceptualizing and subverting violence aimed at queer, racialized, and gendered bodies in this era of surveillance and increasing authoritarianism. Sibbett addresses book bans, anti-trans legislation, idealized histories of westward expansion, and more, examining materials that include public service announcements, advertising, social media, news reports, poems, interviews, and novels. In so doing, she demonstrates the crucial role queer testimonies-and queer histories and queer futures-play in revealing systemic violence and illuminating the transformative potential of everyday resistance.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Megan Sibbett\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0814259790\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780814259795\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Ohio State University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/23\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 156\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.48lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.36d","brand":"Megan Sibbett","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48440590467327,"sku":"9780814259795","price":32.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_e7217985-87b8-42ea-adcb-9354598dad76.jpg?v=1777183461","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/shock-and-yawn-megan-sibbett-9780814259795","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}