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Cruel optimism / Lauren Berlant.
| Author/creator | Berlant, Lauren Gail |
| Other author | ProQuest (Firm) |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Durham : Duke University Press, 2011. |
| Description | 1 online resource (viii, 342 pages) : illustrations |
| Supplemental Content | Click to View |
| Subjects |
| Series | e-Duke books scholarly collection. ^A1054174 |
| Contents | Introduction. affect in the present -- Cruel optimism -- Intuitionists: history and the affective event -- Slow death (obesity, sovereignty, lateral agency) -- Two girls, fat and thin -- Nearly utopian, nearly normal: post-Fordist affect in La Promesse and Rosetta -- After the good life, an impasse: time out, human resources, and the precarious present -- On the desire for the political. |
| General note | "John Hope Franklin Center book" |
| General note | Description based on print version record |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Reproduction note | Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries. |
| Issued in other form | Print version: Berlant, Lauren Gail, 1957- Cruel optimism Durham, N.C. : Duke University Press, 2011 9780822350972 0822350971 9780822351115 0822351110 |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| ISBN | 9780822394716 (electronic bk.) |
| ISBN | 0822394715 (electronic bk.) |