Queer Velocities : Time, Sex, and Biopower on the Early Modern Stage / Jennifer Eun-Jung Row.
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Introduction. Queer Velocities -- The Queer Disunity of Time, or The Affective Affordances of Le Cid -- Animate Ashes: The Time of Ruins and Remains in Andromaque -- Polyeucte and the Speeds of Sects (Sex) -- Circling the Hymen: The Temporality of Dilation in Berenice -- Conclusion. Stepping Out of Time.
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"This book explores the sensations of haste and delay as represented in seventeenth-century French theater. Jennifer Eun-Jung Row proposes that these disruptive velocities--occasions when the tempos of desire subverted society's rhythms and norms--sparked new queer attachments and intimacies"-- Provided by publisher.
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