The Erotics of a Livable Life
Colonial Power and the Affective Work of Queer Desire in Monique Truong's The Book of Salt
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4275685 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Meg Wesling (0000-0001-8850-6193, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2015 |
| Volume | 48 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 131-146 |
| Publication date | 2015-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Mosaic (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0027-1276 • E-ISSN: 1925-5683 |
| Publisher | Project MUSE (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1353/mos.2015.0000 |
| OpenAlex | W2064925652 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 6 |
This essay is about the life-making place of desire in queer life. It asks what kinds of lives are made livable through the articulation of desire, and how the structures of feeling that we recognize as queer desire can be written or erased across the historical record
Aesthetics · Art · Articulation (sociology) · Feeling · Political science · Politics · Power (physics) · Queer · Sociology · Asian American and Pacific Histories · Gender Studies · Latin American and Latino Studies · Law · Psychology · Race, History, and American Society · Social Psychology
| Unique citing works | 2 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,29 |
| Citation span | 2019 - 2019 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |