Tendencies

Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick

Published by Duke University Press 1983

Tendencies

Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick
Edited by: Michèle Aina Barale , Jonathan Goldberg and Michael Moon

In the series Series Q

https://doi.org/10.1515/9780822381860

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About this book

Tendencies 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.

Author / Editor information

Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick is Distinguished Professor of English, CUNY Graduate Center. Her many publications include A Dialogue On Love (Beacon, 1999); Fat Art/Thin Art (Duke, 1994); Tendencies (Duke, 1993); and Epistemology of the Closet (California, 1990).

Reviews

"Because of the polymorphousness of its disciplinary perversity, Tendencies, taken together with Sedgwick's two previous books, virtually defines the new field of queer studies. The opulent availability of an embodied self who also happens to be a brilliant reader marks Sedgwick's effort throughout this volume. It is also what allows one the tutelary space for taking, not only pleasure from her work, but courage from her example."—James Creech, author of Closet Writing/Gay Reading

"Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick is deservedly recognised as the primum mobile of lesbian & gay studies. Yet her real achievement lies not so much in the creation of a new academic discipline, as in the profound implications her work carries for the rest of the academy, and the wider world beyond. For she assigns an absolutely fundamental, constitutive role to homophobia in the construction of Modernity, and its myriad institutions, discourses, pleasures, and pains. Tendencies provides a marvelously exhilarating excursion across the range of her interests and involvements. . . . She is the most consistently intelligent, courageous, perceptive, daring and sensible critic currently writing in the United States. I strongly recommend panic-buying."—Simon Watney, author of Policing Desire

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
CONTENTS Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
Foreword: T Times Publicly Available Download PDF	xi
Queer and Now Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Queer Tutelage
Privilege of Unknowing: Diderot's The Nun Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	23
Tales of the Avunculate: The Importance of Being Earnest Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	52
Is the Rectum Straight?: Identification and Identity in The Wings of the Dove Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	73
Memorial for Craig Owens Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	104
Crossing of Discourse
Jane Austen and the Masturbating Girl Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	109
Epidemics of the Will Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	130
Nationalisms and Sexualities: As Opposed to What? Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	143
How to Bring Your Kids Up Gay: The War on Effeminate Boys Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	154
Across Genders, Across Sexualltle
Willa Cather and Others Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	167
A Poem Is Being Written Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	177
Divinity: A Dossier, A Performance Piece, A Little-Understood Emotion (written with Michael Moon) Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	215
White Glasses Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	252
Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	267
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Language: English
Publisher: Duke University Press
Audience: General/trade;
Pages
- Main content: 300

eBook

Published: October 28, 1993
ISBN: 9780822381860