TendenciesTendencies brings together for the first time the essays that have made Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick "the soft-spoken queen of gay studies" (Rolling Stone). Combining poetry, wit, polemic, and dazzling scholarship with memorial and autobiography, these essays have set new standards of passion and truthfulness for current theoretical writing. The essays range from Diderot, Oscar Wilde, and Henry James to queer kids and twelve-step programs; from "Jane Austen and the Masturbating Girl" to a performance piece on Divine written with Michael Moon; from political correctness and the poetics of spanking to the experience of breast cancer in a world ravaged and reshaped by AIDS. What unites Tendencies is a vision of a new queer politics and thought that, however demanding and dangerous, can also be intent, inclusive, writerly, physical, and sometimes giddily fun. |
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... play and / or of its author gets subsumed in these readings , under the law of the Father , as that one - size - fits - all " difference " that can always be con- scripted to play the same old play with the " same . " Bottom line : the ...
... play and / or of its author gets subsumed in these readings , under the law of the Father , as that one - size - fits - all " difference " that can always be con- scripted to play the same old play with the " same . " Bottom line : the ...
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... play fails to contribute its full quantum to the clock- work mechanisms of syntactic and semantic parsimony and hyper - salience . The exception to this law of salience is , then , precisely subliminal in its operation , a pattern of ...
... play fails to contribute its full quantum to the clock- work mechanisms of syntactic and semantic parsimony and hyper - salience . The exception to this law of salience is , then , precisely subliminal in its operation , a pattern of ...
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... play , as a play , narrows or ex- tends , " stabilizes " or " destabilizes , " the holy name of the family as our culture hands it to us : we would have to ask conclusively , at this point , a difficult question : what it means that the ...
... play , as a play , narrows or ex- tends , " stabilizes " or " destabilizes , " the holy name of the family as our culture hands it to us : we would have to ask conclusively , at this point , a difficult question : what it means that the ...
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