{"product_id":"the-suicidal-state-race-suicide-biopower-and-the-sexuality-of-population-hardcover","title":"The Suicidal State: Race Suicide, Biopower, and the Sexuality of Population - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMadoka Kishi\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Suicidal State\u003c\/em\u003e theorizes a biopolitics of suicide by mapping the entwinement between the Progressive-Era discourse of \"race suicide\" and period representations of literary suicide. Against the backdrop of the turn-of-the-century debates over immigration restrictions, \"race suicide\" suggests white Americans' low birth rate as foretelling an immanent extinction of the white race, prefiguring the contemporary white nationalist discourse, \"replacement theory.\" While race suicide personified the populational subject--the \"race\"--as a suicidal individual, Progressive-Era literature gave birth to a microgenre of literary suicides, including works by Henry James, Kate Chopin, Jack London, Gertrude Stein, and a series of Madame Butterfly texts. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Suicidal State\u003c\/em\u003e argues that suicides in these texts literalize the fear of race suicide as they thwart the biopolitical demands for self-preservation, survival, and reproduction, articulating queer deathways that betray the nation's reproductive imperative. Both in its figuration of race suicide and in literary suicides, self-inflected death is imagined as a uniquely agential act in its destruction of agency, offering a fertile space for the reconceptualization of biopower's subject formation as it traverses individual and social bodies. That is, the book argues that suicide poses a limit case for the biopolitical management over life. Suicide, as it was imagined at the turn of the century, refuses, nullifies, and parries its obligatory relation to both biopower's discipline of the individual and its management of the population, thereby forging new forms of subjectivity and ways of being in the world that sidestep the twin imperatives for preservation and procreation. In tracking these queer potentialities of suicide, \u003cem\u003e The Suicidal State\u003c\/em\u003e offers a new history of sex and race, of the relation between individual and collective, of the formation of a biopolitical state that Foucault calls a \"racist State, a murderous State, and a suicidal State.\"\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMadoka Kishi\u003c\/strong\u003e is a Professional in Residence in English at Louisiana State University. She has translated Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick's \u003cem\u003eTouching Feeling \u003c\/em\u003e(Takanashi-shobo, 2022) and co-translated Judith Butler's \u003cem\u003eParting Ways \u003c\/em\u003e(Seido-sha, 2019) into Japanese. She has published essays in the \u003cem\u003eJournal of American Studies\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Henry James Review\u003c\/em\u003e, and the \u003cem\u003eJournal of Modern Literature \u003c\/em\u003eand is currently co-translating Lauren Berlant's \u003cem\u003eCruel Optimism \u003c\/em\u003efor Kadensha (forthcoming, 2024).\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 260\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.09 x 9.36 x 6.46 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e November 05, 2024\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53529233719603,"sku":"9780197690079","price":76.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0990\/0746\/3731\/files\/G6fpKTlhZ79780197690079.webp?v=1783041361","url":"https:\/\/s3xxpj-vy.myshopify.com\/products\/the-suicidal-state-race-suicide-biopower-and-the-sexuality-of-population-hardcover","provider":"The Celestial Starlit Phoenix ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}