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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... less prestigious , more ubiquitous kinds of text : genre movies , advertising , comic strips . For me , this strong formalist investment didn't imply ( as formalism is generally taken to imply ) an evacuation of interest from the ...
... less prestigious , more ubiquitous kinds of text : genre movies , advertising , comic strips . For me , this strong formalist investment didn't imply ( as formalism is generally taken to imply ) an evacuation of interest from the ...
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... less and less , or in any case with a growing moderation . Efforts to find out its secrets were abandoned ; nothing further was demanded of it than to define itself from day to day . The legitimate couple , with its regular sexuality ...
... less and less , or in any case with a growing moderation . Efforts to find out its secrets were abandoned ; nothing further was demanded of it than to define itself from day to day . The legitimate couple , with its regular sexuality ...
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... less numb to itself , is a welcome prospect . 10. One of the most provocative discussions of performativity in relation to literary criticism is Shoshana Felman , The Literary Speech Act : Don Juan with J. L. Austin , or Seduction in ...
... less numb to itself , is a welcome prospect . 10. One of the most provocative discussions of performativity in relation to literary criticism is Shoshana Felman , The Literary Speech Act : Don Juan with J. L. Austin , or Seduction in ...
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... less pre- pared to deal with the news that a lump or rash isn't a metastasis than that it is ) ; past and future ( when a person anticipating the possibility of death , and the people who care for her , occupy temporalities that more ...
... less pre- pared to deal with the news that a lump or rash isn't a metastasis than that it is ) ; past and future ( when a person anticipating the possibility of death , and the people who care for her , occupy temporalities that more ...
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... less people as unsanitary refuse to be dealt with by periodic " sweeps " ; refusal of condoms in prisons , persecution of needle exchange programs ; denial and trivialization of histories of racism ; or merely the pivot of a dis ...
... less people as unsanitary refuse to be dealt with by periodic " sweeps " ; refusal of condoms in prisons , persecution of needle exchange programs ; denial and trivialization of histories of racism ; or merely the pivot of a dis ...
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.