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Mourning Sex: Performing Public Memories
Mourning Sex Performing Public Memories
Author: Peggy Phelan
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," Phelan creates an extraordinary fusion of critical and creati...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780415147583
ISBN-10: 0415147581
Publication Date: 3/24/1997
Pages: 187
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Publisher: Routledge
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback
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