An Archive of Feelings: Trauma, Sexuality, and Lesbian Public Cultures

by Ann Cvetkovich

Book Overview

In this bold new work of cultural criticism, Ann Cvetkovich develops a queer approach to trauma. She argues for the importance of recognizing-and archiving-accounts of trauma that belong as much to the ordinary and everyday as to the domain of catastrophe. An Archive of Feelings contends that the field of trauma studies, limited by too strict a division between the public and the private, has overlooked the experiences of women and queers...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822330881
• ISBN13: 9780822330882
• Release Date: March 2003
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.14 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 9.3"