TY  - BOOK
AU  - Freeman, Elizabeth
AB  - In Beside You in Time Elizabeth Freeman expands biopolitical and queer theory by outlining a temporal view of the long nineteenth century. Drawing on Foucauldian notions of discipline as a regime that yoked the human body to time, Freeman shows how time became a social and sensory means by which people assembled into groups in ways that resisted disciplinary forces. She tracks temporalized bodies across many entangled regimes—religion, secularity, race, historiography, health, and sexuality—and examines how those bodies act in relation to those regimes. In analyses of the use of rhythmic dance by the Shakers; African American slave narratives; literature by Mark Twain, Pauline Hopkins, Herman Melville, and others; and how Catholic sacraments conjoined people across historical boundaries, Freeman makes the case for the body as an instrument of what she calls queer hypersociality. As a mode of being in which bodies are connected to others and their histories across and throughout time, queer hypersociality, Freeman contends, provides the means for subjugated bodies to escape disciplinary regimes of time and to create new social worlds.
DO  - 10.1215/9781478090045
ID  - OAPEN ID: 1006085
ID  - OAPEN ID: OCN: 1135849581
KW  - Literary Criticism
KW  - Semiotics & Theory
KW  - Social Science
KW  - Gender Studies
KW  - Social Science
KW  - Ethnic Studies/African American Studies
L1  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/id/b66a63d6-062b-49ea-ae9d-2263a95b978f/9781478090045-web.pdf
LA  - English
LK  - http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/24048
PB  - Duke University Press
PP  - Durham, NC
PY  - 2019
SN  - 9781478006350; 9781478005049; 9781478005674
TI  - Beside You in Time : Sense methods and queer sociabilities in the American nineteenth century
ER  - 
