Beside You in Time : Sense Methods and Queer Sociabilities in the American Nineteenth Century

Freeman, Elizabeth

Duke University Press（2019/09発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 277 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781478005049
• DDC分類 306.7660973

Full Description

In Beside You in Time Elizabeth Freeman expands biopolitical and queer theory by outlining a temporal view of the long nineteenth century. Drawing on Foucauldian notions of discipline as a regime that yoked the human body to time, Freeman shows how time became a social and sensory means by which people assembled into groups in ways that resisted disciplinary forces. She tracks temporalized bodies across many entangled regimes-religion, secularity, race, historiography, health, and sexuality-and examines how those bodies act in relation to those regimes. In analyses of the use of rhythmic dance by the Shakers; African American slave narratives; literature by Mark Twain, Pauline Hopkins, Herman Melville, and others; and how Catholic sacraments conjoined people across historical boundaries, Freeman makes the case for the body as an instrument of what she calls queer hypersociality. As a mode of being in which bodies are connected to others and their histories across and throughout time, queer hypersociality, Freeman contends, provides the means for subjugated bodies to escape disciplinary regimes of time and to create new social worlds.

Contents

Acknowledgments  vii
Introduction  1
1. Shake it Off: The Physiopolitics of Shaker Dance, 1774-1856  27
2. The Gift of Constant Escape: Playing Dead in African American Literature, 1849-1900  52
3. Feeling Historicisms: Libidinal History in Twain and Hopkins  87
4. The Sense of Unending: Defective Chronicity in "Bartleby, the Scrivener" and "Melanctha"  124
5. Sacra/Mentality in Djuna Barnes's Nightwood  158
Coda. Rhythm Travel  187
Notes  191
References  199
Index  219