Lee Edelman in conversation with Ralph Poole: “’Queerness,’ Afro-Pessimism, and the Aesthetic”

Ralph Poole (Professor of American Literature and Culture, University of Salzburg) in conversation with Lee Edelman (Fletcher Professor of English Literature, Tufts University) about the latter’s paper “’Queerness,’ Afro-Pessimism, and the Aesthetic,” presented at the international conference "The Return of the Aesthetic in American Studies," Goethe-University Frankfurt, Germany, Nov. 29 to Dec 1, 2018. For more information, visit the conference website www.returnofth....
The conference papers have been published in Yearbook of Research in English and American Literature (REAL), Vol. 35 (2019), edited by Winfried Fluck, Rieke Jordan, and Johannes Voelz. REAL is published by Gunter Narr, Tübingen. The online issue is available here:
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