No Future: Queer Theory and the Death Drive (Series Q)

Closely engaging with literary texts, Edelman makes a compelling case for imagining Scrooge without Tiny Tim and Silas Marner without little Eppie. Looking to Alfred Hitchcock’s films, he embraces two of the director’s most notorious creations: the sadistic Leonard of North by Northwest, who steps on the hand that holds the couple precariously above the abyss, and the terrifying title figures of The Birds, with their predilection for children. Edelman enlarges the reach of contemporary psychoanalytic theory as he brings it to bear not only on works of literature and film but also on such current political flashpoints as gay marriage and gay parenting. Throwing down the theoretical gauntlet, No Future reimagines queerness with a passion certain to spark an equally impassioned debate among its readers.

• Cruising Utopia: The Then and There of Queer Futurity (Sexual Cultures)
• The Queer Art of Failure (a John Hope Franklin Center Book)
• The History of Sexuality, Vol. 1: An Introduction
• Queer Phenomenology: Orientations, Objects, Others
• Disidentifications: Queers Of Color And The Performance Of Politics (Cultural Studies of the Americas)
• Touching Feeling: Affect, Pedagogy, Performativity (Series Q)
• Cruel Optimism
• Epistemology of the Closet, Updated with a New Preface
• Time Binds: Queer Temporalities, Queer Histories (Perverse Modernities: A Series Edited by Jack Halberstam and Lisa Lowe)
• In a Queer Time and Place: Transgender Bodies, Subcultural Lives (Sexual Cultures)