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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... kind of formalism , a visceral near - identification with the writing I cared for , at the level of sentence structure , metrical pat- tern , rhyme , was one way of trying to appropriate what seemed the numi- nous and resistant power of ...
... kind of formalism , a visceral near - identification with the writing I cared for , at the level of sentence structure , metrical pat- tern , rhyme , was one way of trying to appropriate what seemed the numi- nous and resistant power of ...
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... kind . The reading prac- tice founded on such basic demands and intuitions had necessarily to run against the grain of the most patent available formulae for young people's reading and life — against the grain , often , of the most ...
... kind . The reading prac- tice founded on such basic demands and intuitions had necessarily to run against the grain of the most patent available formulae for young people's reading and life — against the grain , often , of the most ...
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... kind of partner at a time ; that its orientation will not change over time . 7 Normatively , as the parenthetical prescriptions in the list above suggest , it should be possible to deduce anybody's entire set of specs from the initial ...
... kind of partner at a time ; that its orientation will not change over time . 7 Normatively , as the parenthetical prescriptions in the list above suggest , it should be possible to deduce anybody's entire set of specs from the initial ...
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... kind of justice to the fractal intricacies of language , skin , migration , state . Thereby , the gravity ( I mean the gravitas , the meaning , but also the center of gravity ) of the term " queer " itself deepens and shifts . Another ...
... kind of justice to the fractal intricacies of language , skin , migration , state . Thereby , the gravity ( I mean the gravitas , the meaning , but also the center of gravity ) of the term " queer " itself deepens and shifts . Another ...
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... , and lesbian activism is Audre Lorde , The Cancer Journals , 1d ed . ( San Francisco : Spinsters Ink , 1988 ) and A Burst of Light ( Ithaca , N.Y .: Firebrand Books , 1988 ) . At the same time , though , another kind of Queer and Now 13.
... , and lesbian activism is Audre Lorde , The Cancer Journals , 1d ed . ( San Francisco : Spinsters Ink , 1988 ) and A Burst of Light ( Ithaca , N.Y .: Firebrand Books , 1988 ) . At the same time , though , another kind of Queer and Now 13.
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.