Cruising Utopia, 10th Anniversary Edition
The Then and There of Queer Futurity
NYU Press · Print & ebook · April 23, 2019
A 10th anniversary edition of this field defining work?an intellectual inspiration for a generation of LGBTQ scholars Cruising Utopia arrived in 2009 to insist that queerness must be reimagined as a futurity-bound phenomenon, an insistence on the potentiality of another world that would crack open the pragmatic present.
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- Who it’s for
- A slim, shelf-worthy edition that turns queer futurity into a sharp, memorable reading experience.
- Genres
- LGBTQ+ Studies, Critical Theory, Utopian Thinking
- Published
- NYU Press, April 23, 2019
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A 10th anniversary edition of this field defining work?an intellectual inspiration for a generation of LGBTQ scholars Cruising Utopia arrived in 2009 to insist that queerness must be reimagined as a futurity-bound phenomenon, an insistence on the potentiality of another world that would crack open the pragmatic present.
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Part manifesto, part love-letter to the past and the future, José Esteban Muñoz argued that the here and now were not enough and issued an urgent call for the revivification of the queer political imagination. On the anniversary of its original publication, this edition includes two essays that extend and expand the project of Cruising Utopia, as well as a new foreword by the current editors of Sexual Cultures, the book series he co-founded with Ann Pellegrini 20 years ago. This 10th anniversary edition celebrates the lasting impact that Cruising Utopia has had on the decade of queer of color critique that followed and introduces a new generation of readers to a future not yet here.
Queer Futurity
A slim, shelf-worthy edition that turns queer futurity into a sharp, memorable reading experience.
Come here for
- queer futurity, lucidly framed
- giftable critical classic
Expect
- critical prose with staying power
- display-friendly anniversary edition
Where it sits
| LGBTQ+ Studies | 65% |
|---|---|
| Utopian Thinking | 46% |
| Critical Theory | 29% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Gender Studies
- Authors
- José Esteban Muñoz, Joshua Chambers-Letson, Tavia Nyong'o
- Publisher
- NYU Press
- Published
- April 23, 2019
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Reading lane
- Gender Studies