TY  - BOOK
AU  - Ruti,Mari
TI  - The Ethics of Opting Out: Queer Theory's Defiant Subjects 
SN  - 9780231180900
AV  - HQ76.25 .R88 2017eb
U1  - 306.7601 23
PY  - 2017///]
CY  - New York, NY : 
PB  - Columbia University Press, 
KW  - Queer theory
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM / LGBT
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - Frontmatter --; CONTENTS --; AUTHOR'S NOTE --; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS --; INTRODUCTION --; Chapter One. QUEER THEORY AND THE ETHICS OF OPTING OUT --; Chapter Two. FROM BUTLERIAN REITERATION TO LACANIAN DEFIANCE --; Chapter Three. WHY THERE IS ALWAYS A FUTURE IN THE FUTURE --; Chapter Four. BEYOND THE ANTISOCIAL-SOCIAL DIVIDE --; Chapter Five. THE USES AND MISUSES OF BAD FEELINGS --; CONCLUSION. A Dialogue on Silence with Jordan Mulder --; REFERENCES --; INDEX; restricted access; Issued also in print
N2  - In The Ethics of Opting Out, Mari Ruti provides an accessible yet theoretically rigorous account of the ideological divisions that have animated queer theory during the last decade, paying particular attention to the field's rejection of dominant neoliberal narratives of success, cheerfulness, and self-actualization. More specifically, she focuses on queer negativity in the work of Lee Edelman, Jack Halberstam, and Lynne Huffer, and on the rhetoric of bad feelings found in the work of Sara Ahmed, Lauren Berlant, David Eng, Heather Love, and José Muñoz. Ruti highlights the ways in which queer theory's desire to opt out of normative society rewrites ethical theory and practice in genuinely innovative ways at the same time as she resists turning antinormativity into a new norm. This wide-ranging and thoughtful book maps the parameters of contemporary queer theory in order to rethink the foundational assumptions of the field
UR  - https://doi.org/10.7312/ruti18090
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780231543354
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780231543354/original
ER  -