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9780822384434

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In this bold new work of cultural criticism, Ann Cvetkovich develops a queer approach to trauma. She argues for the importance of recognizing-and archiving-accounts of trauma that belong as much to the ordinary and everyday as to the domain of catastrophe. An Archive of Feelings contends that the field of trauma studies, limited by too strict a division between the public and the private, has overlooked the experiences of women and queers. Rejecting the pathologizing understandings of trauma that permeate medical and clinical discourses on the subject, Cvetkovich develops instead a sex-positive approach missing even from most feminist work on trauma. She challenges the field to engage more fully with sexual trauma and the wide range of feelings in its vicinity, including those associated with butch-femme sex and aids activism and caretaking. An Archive of Feelings brings together oral histories from lesbian activists involved in act up/New York; readings of literature by Dorothy Allison, Leslie Feinberg, Cherrie Moraga, and Shani Mootoo; videos by Jean Carlomusto and Pratibha Parmar; and performances by Lisa Kron, Carmelita Tropicana, and the bands Le Tigre and Tribe 8. Cvetkovich reveals how activism, performance, and literature give rise to public cultures that work through trauma and transform the conditions producing it. By looking closely at connections between sexuality, trauma, and the creation of lesbian public cultures, Cvetkovich makes those experiences that have been pushed to the peripheries of trauma culture the defining principles of a new construction of sexual trauma-one in which trauma catalyzes the creation of cultural archives and political communities.

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Publié par

Duke University Press

Date de parution

14 mars 2003

EAN13

9780822384434

Langue

English

Poids de l'ouvrage

1 Mo

Cultural studies Sociologie, société et politique

An Archive of Feelings

Edited by Michèle Aina Barale,

Jonathan Goldberg, Michael Moon,

and Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick

          

An Archive of Feelings

Trauma, Sexuality, and Lesbian Public Cultures

DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS:ON 2003DURHAM & LOND

The distribution of this book is supported by a generous grant from the Gill Foundation.

©  Duke University Press All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America on acid-free paper  Designed by Rebecca Giménez Typeset in Adobe Minion by Tseng Information Systems, Inc. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data appear on the last printed page of this book. rd printing, 

For my mother,

Valerie Haig-Brown,

and my father,

Joseph Cvetkovich

Contents

Acknowledgments, ix

Introduction,

The Everyday Life of Queer Trauma, 

Trauma and Touch: Butch-Femme Sexualities, 

Sexual Trauma/Queer Memory: Incest, Lesbianism, and Therapeutic Culture, 

Transnational Trauma and Queer Diasporic Publics, 

AIDS Activism and Public Feelings: Documenting ACT UP’s Lesbians, 

Legacies of Trauma, Legacies of Activism: Mourning and Militancy Revisited, 

In the Archive of Lesbian Feelings, 

Epilogue, 

Appendix: A Note on Interviews, 

Notes, 

Filmography, 

Bibliography, 

Index, 

Acknowledgments

To put it simply, I have a lot of people to thank. A crucial research leave during – was supported by the University of Texas and the Rockefeller Foundation. Ron Grele and Mary Marshall Clark of Colum-bia University’s Oral History Research Oﬃce, where I had a Rockefeller fellowship, were superb colleagues; their introduction to the practice of oral history has permanently changed my scholarship. Before that Diana Taylor and José Muñoz helped me get to New York by arranging for me to teach in the Department of Performance Studies at New York Uni-versity, an experience—especially my conversations with the students in Trauma Cultures and Feminism and the Public Sphere—that vitalized my project. Audiences at numerous universities, including New York Univer-sity, the University of California at Los Angeles, Duke University, Dart-mouth College, the Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies at City Univer-sity of New York’s Graduate Center, Rice University, the University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee, Trent University, Barnard College, and the Uni-versity of Chicago contributed to my thinking, and I want to thank my hosts José Muñoz, Joseph Bristow, Wahneema Lubiano, Marianne Hirsch, Paisley Currah, Susan Lurie and Lynne Huﬀer, Kristie Hamilton, Richard Dellamora, Janet Jakobsen, and Kathleen Frederickson. I’ve also bene-ﬁted from my association with New York University’s Trauma Studies Institute and especially Jack Saul’s unexpected enthusiasm for my work. The process of writing this book has been embedded in a life made richer by circles of friends in many places. My University of Texas cohort includes Phil Barrish, Sabrina Barton, Barbara Harlow, Lisa Moore, Ann Reynolds, Gretchen Ritter, Katie Stewart, and many graduate students, including my dissertation group and those who took my Trauma Cultures course. The experience of living in New York as I moved toward com-pletion of this work remains indelible. I can’t imagine having ﬁnished without the help of the Faculty Working Group in Queer Theory at New

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