Soft matter: the poetics of weakness in late soviet socialism
Auteur :
Vaingurt, Julia
Éditeur :
Northwestern University Press
ISBN :
9780810148154
Date de publication :
15 janv. 2025
Dimensions :
22,9 x 15,2 cm
Poids :
454 g
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
USA
Explores the cultivation of weak subjectivity through modes such as gender subversion, queer holy foolishness, intoxication, madness, and writing disorders like graphomania and writer’s block. Vaingurt also traces the inheritance of a far older tradition within Russian culture of salutary weakness.