{"product_id":"cruising-utopia-10th-anniversary-edition-the-then-and-there-of-queer-futurity-9781479874569","title":"Cruising Utopia, 10th Anniversary Edition: The Then and There of Queer Futurity","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA 10th anniversary edition of this field defining work--an intellectual inspiration for a generation of LGBTQ scholars \u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eCruising Utopia\u003c\/i\u003e arrived in 2009 to insist that queerness must be reimagined as a futurity-bound phenomenon, an insistence on the potentiality of another world that would crack open the pragmatic present. Part manifesto, part love-letter to the past and the future, José Esteban Muñoz argued that the here and now were not enough and issued an urgent call for the revivification of the queer political imagination. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eOn the anniversary of its original publication, this edition includes two essays that extend and expand the project of \u003ci\u003eCruising Utopia\u003c\/i\u003e, as well as a new foreword by the current editors of Sexual Cultures, the book series he co-founded with Ann Pellegrini 20 years ago. This 10th anniversary edition celebrates the lasting impact that \u003ci\u003eCruising Utopia\u003c\/i\u003e has had on the decade of queer of color critique that followed and introduces a new generation of readers to a future not yet here.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eJosé Esteban Muñoz (Author) \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eJosé Esteban Muñoz\u003c\/b\u003e (1967-2013) was Professor and Chair of Performance Studies at New York University. He was the author of \u003ci\u003eDisidentifications: Queers of Color and the Performance of Politics\u003c\/i\u003e (1999), \u003ci\u003eCruising Utopia: The Then and There of Queer Futurity\u003c\/i\u003e (\u003ci\u003e10th Anniversary Edition, \u003c\/i\u003e2019), and \u003ci\u003eThe Sense of Brown\u003c\/i\u003e (2020). He was co-editor of \u003ci\u003ePop Out: Queer Warhol\u003c\/i\u003e (1996) and \u003ci\u003eEverynight Life: Culture and Dance in Latin\/o America\u003c\/i\u003e (1997) and founding co-editor of the Sexual Cultures series at NYU Press. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eJoshua Chambers-Letson (Foreword by) \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eJoshua Chambers-Letson\u003c\/b\u003e is Associate Professor of Performance Studies at Northwestern University and author of \u003ci\u003eAfter the Party: A Manifesto for Queer of Color Life \u003c\/i\u003e(2018). \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eTavia Nyong'o (Foreword by) \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eTavia Nyong'o\u003c\/b\u003e is Professor of African American Studies, American Studies, and Theater \u0026amp; Performance Studies at Yale University and the author of \u003ci\u003eAfro-Fabulations: The Queer Drama of Black Life\u003c\/i\u003e (2018). \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eAnn Pellegrini (Foreword by) \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eAnn Pellegrini\u003c\/b\u003e is Professor of Performance Studies \u0026amp; Social and Cultural Analysis at New York University, and a psychoanalyst in private practice. Their books include \u003ci\u003ePerformance Anxieties: Staging Psychoanalysis, Staging Race\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eLove the Sin: Sexual Regulation and the Limits of Religious Tolerance\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e (\u003c\/i\u003eco-authored with Janet R. Jakobsen). \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"New York University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50619725709586,"sku":"9781479874569","price":32.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_b1489b46-9281-405f-8b0c-6c1c9e8b52ad.jpg?v=1732554299","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/cruising-utopia-10th-anniversary-edition-the-then-and-there-of-queer-futurity-9781479874569","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}