Long Term

Scott Herring is Professor of American Studies and Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Yale University and author of The Hoarders: Material Deviance in Modern American Culture.Lee Wallace is Associate Professor of Gender and Cultural Studies at the University of Sydney and author of Reattachment Theory: Queer Cinema of Remarriage, also published by Duke University Press.E. Patrick Johnson is Annenberg University Professor of Performance Studies and African American Studies at Northwestern University.

• Foreword: Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey / E. Patrick Johnson  viiIntroduction: A Theory of the Long Term / Scott Herring and Lee Wallace  11. Committed to the End: On Caretaking, Rereading, and Queer Theory / Elizabeth Freeman  252. Loss and the Long Term / Amy Villarejo  463. Unhealthy Attachments: Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and the Commitment to Endure / Sally R. Munt  634. A Lifetime of Drugs / Kane Race  895. Death Do Us Part / Carla Freccero  1176. Never Better: Queer Commitment Phobia in Hanya Yanagihara's A Little Life / Scott Herring  1347. Race, Incarceration, and the Commitment of Volunteer / Amy Jamgochian  1558. The Color of Kinship: Race, Biology, and Queer Reproduction / Jaya Keaney  1759. Toward a Political Economy of the Long Term / Lisa Adkins and Maryanne Dever  19910. Serial Commitment, or, 100 Ways to Leave Your Lover / Annemarie Jagose and Lee Wallace  22311. The Long Run / Heather Love  250Contributors  267Index  271

“Every now and again an edited volume comes along and sets a new agenda for a field. This absolutely dazzling piece of scholarship is precisely such a landmark contribution. Encountering the scrambled landscape of gay life in the post-Obergefell world while grappling with the new possibilities for commitment made possible by the legalization of gay marriage, Long Term is a truly original and outstanding work.” - Benjamin Kahan, author of (The Book of Minor Perverts: Sexology, Etiology, and the Emergences of Sexuality) “The essays in Long Term enter the quotidian realm of queer commitments not to settle scores with the outsized celebration of antinormativity that writes the political into prerecorded narratives of heroic refusal, but to inhabit the small acts and minor tempos that compose the work, anxiety, and yes even the pleasure of ordinary endurance. Lushly descriptive and wholly engaging, this collection is both a living document and a critically nuanced guide to the persistence of queer commitments.” - Robyn Wiegman, author of (Object Lessons) "Disability and carework are the volume’s most prominent scenes of queer commitment: palliative care for a dying mother or companion animals; living on after a partner’s catastrophic stroke; living with gendered and queered chronic illness. . . .  The authors pause on small scenes of the mundane, finding queer attachments in 'suspended time and repetitive actions' and the thickness of the everyday." - Margot Weiss (Public Books) “Long Term plunges us into everyday scenes of belonging, which are rife with complicity, ambivalence, and damage. We move from deathbeds to the dance floor, from prisons to hospitals, from gay adoption to companion species caretaking. . . . Herring and Wallace loosen heteronormativity’s fierce grip on the narration of the long term while better attuning queer theory to practices of care that enable queerness to endure."- Tyler Bradway (American Literary History)