Queer Events Post Deconstructive Subjectivities by David Vilaseca (10 results)

Condition: Good. Volume 4. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In good all round condition. Dust jacket in fair condition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,600grams, ISBN:9781846314674.…

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Buch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - Queer Events studies for the first time crucial texts from the era of the Spanish Transition to democracy, taken here as the period lasting from the 1960s to the 1990s. It offers radically new readings of some major writers and filmmakers, such as Terenci Moix and Vicente Aranda, but also addresses some who deserve to be better known: defrocked priest and autobiographer Antonio Roig, controversial scholar and fiction-writer Alberto Cardín, and experimental film directors José Maria Nunes, Jacinto Esteva-Grewe and Joaquín Jordà, members of the short-lived, but vital, movement known as 'the Barcelona School'. David Vilaseca treats this group of texts, both literary and cinematic, in a wholly original way. Drawing on some of the most influential theorists and philosophers of our time never previously used in a Hispanic context (Deleuze, Agamben, Zizek and, above all, Badiou), Queer Events argues for a radical re-reading of a complex period in Spanish history, which is characterized by amnesia in relation to a painful past and ideological conflict within an unsettling present. The book argues that the Transition emerges as (in Badiou's terms) the great 'evental site' of modern Spain, from which radically new ways of thinking can still emerge.…