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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... never mind an unreliable narrator . No , " I " is a heuristic ; maybe a powerful one . Tendencies ought to make sense to people who haven't read Episte- mology of the Closet ; but the intimate adhesion between the books meant that I ...
... never mind an unreliable narrator . No , " I " is a heuristic ; maybe a powerful one . Tendencies ought to make sense to people who haven't read Episte- mology of the Closet ; but the intimate adhesion between the books meant that I ...
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... never to learn this , that , farther along , the road widens and the air brightens ; that in the big world there are worlds where it's plausible , our demand to get used to it . EPISTEMOLOOIES I've heard of many people who claim they'd ...
... never to learn this , that , farther along , the road widens and the air brightens ; that in the big world there are worlds where it's plausible , our demand to get used to it . EPISTEMOLOOIES I've heard of many people who claim they'd ...
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... never a matter of my condescension to texts , rather of the surplus charge of my trust in them to remain powerful , refractory , and exemplary . And this doesn't seem an unusual way for ardent reading to function in relation to queer ...
... never a matter of my condescension to texts , rather of the surplus charge of my trust in them to remain powerful , refractory , and exemplary . And this doesn't seem an unusual way for ardent reading to function in relation to queer ...
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... never can only denote ; nor even can it only connote ; a part of its experimental force as a speech act is the way in which it dramatizes locutionary position itself . Anyone's use of " queer " about themselves means differently from ...
... never can only denote ; nor even can it only connote ; a part of its experimental force as a speech act is the way in which it dramatizes locutionary position itself . Anyone's use of " queer " about themselves means differently from ...
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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.