Prominent theorist rethinks the psychoanalytic assumptions underlying queer theory.
Brings provocative, rigorous and controversial readings of literary and cultural texts to gay critical analysis. Lee Edelman rearticulates the politics of sexuality, addressing some of the most hotly debated issues of our time.
Lee Edelman offers a sweeping theorization of queerness as one of the many names for the void around and against which the social order takes shape.