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Tendencies /

"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 passi...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Sedgwick, Eve Kosofsky
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Durham : Duke University Press, 1993.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of 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.