Epistemology of the Closet, Updated with a New Preface - Paperback
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Languages:EnglishPublisher:University of California PressISBN-13:9780520254060ISBN-10:520254066UPC:9780520254060Book Category:Literary Criticism, Social ScienceBook Subcategory:Semiotics & Theory, LGBTQ+ Studies, Gender StudiesBook Topic:Gay StudiesSize:8.96 x 6.06 x 0.69 inchesWeight:0.83Product ID:SC1JM35CKX
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.
Languages:EnglishPublisher:University of California PressISBN-13:9780520254060ISBN-10:520254066UPC:9780520254060Book Category:Literary Criticism, Social ScienceBook Subcategory:Semiotics & Theory, LGBTQ+ Studies, Gender StudiesBook Topic:Gay StudiesSize:8.96 x 6.06 x 0.69 inchesWeight:0.83Product ID:SC1JM35CKX
Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick (May 2, 1950 - April 12, 2009) was a poet, artist, literary critic and teacher. She is perhaps best known as one of the originators of Queer Theory. Her work and her example continue to have a significant effect in shaping the lives and thought of many people.
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