Tendencies

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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 schol-arship with memóriái and autobiography, these essays have set new standards of passión and truth-fulness for current theoretícal writing.
The essays rangé from discussions of Diderot, Oscar Wilde, and Henry James to queer kids and twelve-step programs; from "Jane Austen and the Masturbating GirP 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 the vision of a new queer activism and thought that, however demanding and dangerous, can alsó be intent, inclusive, writerly, phvsical, and sometimes giddily fun.
Because of the polymorphousness of its disciplinary perversicy, Tendencies, taken together with Sedgwick's two... Tovább

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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 schol-arship with memóriái and autobiography, these essays have set new standards of passión and truth-fulness for current theoretícal writing.
The essays rangé from discussions of Diderot, Oscar Wilde, and Henry James to queer kids and twelve-step programs; from "Jane Austen and the Masturbating GirP 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 the vision of a new queer activism and thought that, however demanding and dangerous, can alsó be intent, inclusive, writerly, phvsical, and sometimes giddily fun.
Because of the polymorphousness of its disciplinary perversicy, 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 alsó happens to be a brilliant reader marks Sedgwick's effort throughout this volume. It is alsó 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. Tendencies provides a marvelouslv exhilarating excursion across the rangé of her interests and involvements. . . . She is the most consistently intelligent, courageous, percep-tive, daring, and sensible critic currently writing in the United States. I strongly recommend panic-buving.^—Simon Watney, author of Policing Desire
Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick is the Newman Ivey White Professor of English at Duke University. She is the author of Between Men: English Literature and Male Homosocial Desire and Epistemology of the Closet. Vissza