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Cruising Utopia, 10th Anniversary Edition by José Esteban Muñoz

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Cruising Utopia, 10th Anniversary Edition

The Then and There of Queer Futurity

José Esteban Muñoz, Joshua Chambers-Letson, Tavia Nyong'o

NYU Press · Print & ebook · April 23, 2019

Reading lane: Gender Studies

A 10th anniversary edition of this field defining work?an intellectual inspiration for a generation of LGBTQ scholars Cruising Utopia arrived in 2009 to insist that queerness must be reimagined as a futurity-bound phenomenon, an insistence on the potentiality of another world that would crack open the pragmatic present.

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Queer Futurity

A slim, shelf-worthy edition that turns queer futurity into a sharp, memorable reading experience.

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Authors
José Esteban Muñoz, Joshua Chambers-Letson, Tavia Nyong'o
Publisher
NYU Press
Published
April 23, 2019
Format
Print & ebook
Theme
Gender Studies
Reading lane
Gender Studies

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A 10th anniversary edition of this field defining work?an intellectual inspiration for a generation of LGBTQ scholars Cruising Utopia arrived in 2009 to insist that queerness must be reimagined as a futurity-bound phenomenon, an insistence on the potentiality of another world that would crack open the pragmatic present. Part manifesto, part love-letter to the past and the future, José Esteban Muñoz argued that the here and now were not enough and issued an urgent call for...

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A 10th anniversary edition of this field defining work?an intellectual inspiration for a generation of LGBTQ scholars Cruising Utopia arrived in 2009 to insist that queerness must be reimagined as a futurity-bound phenomenon, an insistence on the potentiality of another world that would crack open the pragmatic present. Part manifesto, part love-letter to the past and the future, José Esteban Muñoz argued that the here and now were not enough and issued an urgent call for the revivification of the queer political imagination. On the anniversary of its original publication, this edition includes two essays that extend and expand the project of Cruising Utopia , as well as a new foreword by the current editors of Sexual Cultures, the book series he co-founded with Ann Pellegrini 20 years ago. This 10th anniversary edition celebrates the lasting impact that Cruising Utopia has had on the decade of queer of color critique that followed and introduces a new generation of readers to a future not yet here.

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