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In Castration Desire, Robinson Murphy matches close reading of the text with serious and original thinking about power and powerlessness, using ideas around castration with subtlety and sharp insight. His book offers a new reading of the novels and films under consideration, but more than that, it opens space for a new way of seeing character itself, especially male character, and power dynamics in fiction. * Colm Tóibín, Irene and Sidney B. Silverman Professor of the Humanities, Columbia University, USA * Inspiring in its dexterous interdisciplinary reading of film, art, and literary fiction, Castration Desire takes its readers to the unexpected terrain where queerness, masculinity, and ecological concerns intersect to present a new mode of being. Dispelling many misconceptions about castration through a conversation with current thinkers and artists, Murphy offers us a robust study that will inspire the next generation of literary critics. * Naminata Diabate, Associate Professor of Comparative Literature, Cornell University, USA * This book’s transdisciplinary impulse is one of its many strengths, together with its focus on dismantling neoliberal essentialisms and offering an innovative lens from which to re-think the notion of sustainability today.Castration Desire offers a significant contribution to the fields of queer theory and contemporary literary studies, with many provocations that have the potential of revolutionizing contemporary queer and literary studies in necessary ways. * Libe García Zarranz, Associate Professor of Literature in English, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway *

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Robinson Murphy is Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies at Hobart and William Smith Colleges, USA. His articles have appeared in Journal of Film and Video, Quarterly Review of Film and Video, and Journal of Popular Film and Television, among others.

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