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Tendencies

Author: Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick
Publisher: Durham : Duke University Press, 1993.
Series: Series Q.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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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 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  Read more...
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Additional Physical Format: Online version:
Sedgwick, Eve Kosofsky.
Tendencies.
Durham : Duke University Press, 1993
(OCoLC)605051002
Online version:
Sedgwick, Eve Kosofsky.
Tendencies.
Durham : Duke University Press, 1993
(OCoLC)624440631
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick
ISBN: 0822314088 9780822314080 0822314215 9780822314219
OCLC Number: 28183606
Description: xvi, 281 p. ; 24 cm.
Contents: Foreword: T times --
Queer and now --
Queer tutelage. Privilege of unknowing: Diderot's The nun ; Tales of the avunculate: The importance of being earnest ; Is the rectum straight?: identification and identity in The wings of the dove ; Memorial for Craig Owens --
Crossing of discourses. Jane Austen and the masturbating girl ; Epidemics of the will ; Nationalisms and sexualities: as opposed to what? ; How to bring your kids up gay: the war on effeminate boys --
Across genders, across sexualities. Willa Cather and others ; A poem is being written ; Divinity: a dossier, a performance piece, a little-understood emotion / (written with Michael Moon) ; White glasses.
Series Title: Series Q.
Responsibility: Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick.
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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 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." -- Book cover.

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