1st Edition

The Sexual Politics of Time Confession, Nostalgia, Memory

By Susannah Radstone Copyright 2007
264 Pages
by Routledge

264 Pages
by Routledge

264 Pages
by Routledge

Looking at a diverse range of texts including Marilyn French's The Women's Room , Philip Roth's Patrimony , the writings of Walter Benjamin and Fredric Jameson, and films such as Cinema Paradiso , Susannah Radstone argues that though time has been foregrounded in theories of postmodernism, those theories have ignored the question of time and sexual difference. The Sexual Politics of Time... Read more
Acknowledgements Introducing Time 1. On Confession 2. Confession, time and sexual difference 3. The (Sexual) Politics of Nostalgia 4. Film theory, masculinity and mourning 5. Remembering Ourselves Bibliography

Biography

Susannah Radstone is Reader in the School of Social Sciences, Media and Cultural Studies at the University of East London.