{"product_id":"behind-our-backs-feminized-poetry-and-capitalist-abstraction","title":"Behind Our Backs: Feminized Poetry and Capitalist Abstraction","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn this daring study, Amy De'Ath develops a new type of literary criticism attuned to the way our lives are shaped by capital's impersonal compulsions - by what happens \"behind our backs.\" Challenging the symptomatic interpretive methods of Western Marxism, De'Ath argues that value-critical accounts of Marx's work enable a feminist reading method that understands how value dissimulates itself from the social forms it generates, obscuring their historical content.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Close reading works by Kay Gabriel, Bernadette Mayer, Bhanu Kapil, Marie Annharte Baker, Alli Warren, and Hannah Black, \u003ci\u003eBehind Our Backs\u003c\/i\u003e explains how these examples of everyday feminized ingenuity--by turns excessive, improper, ironic, and sincere--express the reality of capitalism's appearances, and in doing so call forth dialectical readers. Through this careful collation of poetic cases, capital is revealed to be not a force of human nature, but the expression of a dynamic social configuration--a logic realized every day, and one whose gendering inversions are felt and critiqued in the poetic experiments of trans, queer, Indigenous, and diasporic writing. Feminized poetry, De'Ath demonstrates, is both a central archive and theoretical powerhouse for the critique of political economy.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Stanford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51160315920695,"sku":"9781503644847","price":32.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0934\/9926\/1239\/files\/imageloader_90d72b85-6307-458e-91d5-32e1e45e94fd.jpg?v=1759427566","url":"https:\/\/shop.queerbooks.com\/products\/behind-our-backs-feminized-poetry-and-capitalist-abstraction","provider":"Philly AIDS Thrift @ Giovanni's Room","version":"1.0","type":"link"}