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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... politics surrounding it , in- cluding the politics of homophobia and of queer assertiveness . The AIDS activist ... political work to be done just by being available to be identified with in the very grain of one's illness ( which ...
... politics surrounding it , in- cluding the politics of homophobia and of queer assertiveness . The AIDS activist ... political work to be done just by being available to be identified with in the very grain of one's illness ( which ...
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... political pos- sibilities , skills , ambitions , and knowledges have been laid waste with a relishing wantonness . No great difficulty in recognizing those aspects of the anti- " PC " craze that are functioning as covers for a rightist ...
... political pos- sibilities , skills , ambitions , and knowledges have been laid waste with a relishing wantonness . No great difficulty in recognizing those aspects of the anti- " PC " craze that are functioning as covers for a rightist ...
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Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick. questioning both the ethical / political disengagement and , beyond that , the ethical / political simplicity of the category of “ knowledge , ” so that it seems , now , a naive writer who appeals too directly to ...
Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick. questioning both the ethical / political disengagement and , beyond that , the ethical / political simplicity of the category of “ knowledge , ” so that it seems , now , a naive writer who appeals too directly to ...
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