Tendencies - P, Paperback/Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick
Descriere
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. About the Author: 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).
Despre autor
Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick a fost o academiță feministă americană specializată în studiile de gen, teoria queer și teoria critică. Sedgwick a publicat mai multe cărți considerate revoluționare în domeniul teoriei queer, iar scrierile sale critice au contribuit la înființarea studiilor queer, în care a fost una dintre cele mai influente figuri.
