"Mobilizing disparate resources in lyric poetry, personal
reflection, and queer theory, Michael Snediker argues for an
optimism not reducible to hope and not opposed to knowledge. Queer
Optimism demands that we think again about enjoyment, pain,
personhood, and whether and how we live our theories. It’s a
challenging book of fresh perspectives and previously unwritable
sentences." —Rei Terada, author of Looking Away:Phenomenality and
Dissatisfaction, Kant to Adorno
"Queer Optimism is a major—potentially paradigm-shifting—work in
queer theory. I cannot remember the last time I learned so much
from reading a work of literary criticism." —Tim Dean, Director of
the Humanities Institute, University at Buffalo (SUNY)
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