Lee Edelman is Professor of English at Tufts University. He is the author of Homographesis: Essays in Gay Literary and Cultural Theory and Transmemberment of Song: Hart Crane's Anatomies of Rhetoric and Desire.
Uses post-structuralist discourse and Lacanian psychoanalysis to revise and re-articulate the politics of sexuality, discussing issues such as sexual identity, homophobia and feminism. Brings a... (more)
In this searing polemic, Lee Edelman outlines a radically uncompromising new ethics of queer theory. His main target is the all-pervasive figure of the child, which he reads as the linchpin of our... (more)