Epistemology of the Closet, Updated with a New Preface

Häftad, Engelska, 2008

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Beskrivning

Since the late 1980s, queer studies and theory have become vital to the intellectual and political life of the United States. This has been due, in no small degree, to the influence of Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick's critically acclaimed "Epistemology of the Closet". Working from classic texts of European and American writers - including Melville, James, Nietzsche, Proust, and Wilde -Sedgwick analyzes a turn-of-the-century historical moment in which sexual orientation became as important a demarcation of personhood as gender had been for centuries. In her preface to this updated edition Sedgwick places the book both personally and historically, looking specifically at the horror of the first wave of the AIDS epidemic and its influence on the text.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2008-01-17
Mått:152 x 229 x 18 mm
Vikt:363 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:280
Förlag:University of California Press
ISBN:9780520254060

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HBTQ+ inom Samhälle och politik

Mer om författaren

Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick is Distinguished Professor of English at City University of New York Graduate Center. Her books include Between Men, Tendencies, A Dialogue on Love, and Touching Feeling.

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"Close readings of Melville's Billy Budd, Wilde's Dorian Gray, and of Proust, Nietzsche, Henry James, and Thackeray bristle with keen observations relating entrenched fears of same-sex relationships to contemporary gay-bashing."

Innehållsförteckning

Acknowledgments Credits Preface to the 2008 Edition Introduction: Axiomatic I. Epistemology of the Closet 2. Some Binarisms (I)Billy Budd: After the Homosexual 3· Some Binarisms (II)Wilde, Nietzsche, and the Sentimental Relationsof the Male Body 4· The Beast in the ClosetJames and the Writing of Homosexual Panic 5· Proust and the Spectacle of the Closet Index

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