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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... Importance of Being Earnest 52 Is the Rectum Straight ?: Identification and Identity in The Wings of the Dove 73 Memorial for Craig Owens 104 Crossing of Discourses Jane Austen and the Masturbating Girl 109 Epidemics of the Will 130 ...
... Importance of Being Earnest 52 Is the Rectum Straight ?: Identification and Identity in The Wings of the Dove 73 Memorial for Craig Owens 104 Crossing of Discourses Jane Austen and the Masturbating Girl 109 Epidemics of the Will 130 ...
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... transfigure — the energies of some received 1. Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick , Epistemology of the Closet ( Berkeley : University of California Press , 1990 ) , pp . 87-88 . forms of writing that were important to me : the Foreword xIII.
... transfigure — the energies of some received 1. Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick , Epistemology of the Closet ( Berkeley : University of California Press , 1990 ) , pp . 87-88 . forms of writing that were important to me : the Foreword xIII.
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... important to them ! Like most universities , Duke isn't quite ; but it has been terrific in supporting this inquiry , and Tendencies owes a great deal to both Duke's generosity and that of Amherst College . I suppose there's something a ...
... important to them ! Like most universities , Duke isn't quite ; but it has been terrific in supporting this inquiry , and Tendencies owes a great deal to both Duke's generosity and that of Amherst College . I suppose there's something a ...
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... important though it has been to me , can reflect only a small part of the wealth I've experi- enced in his intimacy . The simple secret of the plot is just to tell them that I love them a lot . TENDENCIES QUEER AND NOW A MOTIVE I think ...
... important though it has been to me , can reflect only a small part of the wealth I've experi- enced in his intimacy . The simple secret of the plot is just to tell them that I love them a lot . TENDENCIES QUEER AND NOW A MOTIVE I think ...
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... important senses in which " queer " can signify only when attached to the first person . One possible corollary : that what it takes — all it takes — to make the description " queer " a true one is the im- pulsion to use it in the first ...
... important senses in which " queer " can signify only when attached to the first person . One possible corollary : that what it takes — all it takes — to make the description " queer " a true one is the im- pulsion to use it in the first ...
Contents
DIDEROTS THE NUN | 23 |
QUEER TUTELAGE IN THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST | 52 |
IS THE RECTUM STRAIGHT? IDENTIFICATION AND IDENTITY IN THE WINGS OF THE DOVE | 73 |
MEMORIAL FOR CRAIG OWENS | 104 |
CROSSING OF DISCOURSES | 107 |
JANE AUSTEN AND THE MASTURBATING GIRL | 109 |
EPIDEMICS OF THE WILL | 130 |
AS OPPOSED TO WHAT? | 143 |
ACROSS GENDERS ACROSS SEXUALITIES | 165 |
WILLA GATHER AND OTHERS | 167 |
A POEM IS BEING WRITTEN | 177 |
A DOSSIER A PERFORMANCE PIECE A LITTLEUNDERSTOOD EMOTION | 215 |
WHITE GLASSES | 252 |
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THE WAR ON EFFEMINATE BOYS | 154 |
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Page 8 - At the same time, a lot of the most exciting recent work around "queer" spins the term outward along dimensions that can't be subsumed under gender and sexuality at all: the ways that race, ethnicity, postcolonial nationality criss-cross with these and other identity-constituting, identityfracturing discourses, for example.