Reading Sedgwick

by Berlant, Lauren Gail

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Title Statements

Full title :Reading Sedgwick / Lauren Berlant, editor.

Summary

Over the course of her long career, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick became one of the most important voices in queer theory, and her calls for reparative criticism and reading practices grounded in affect and performance have transformed understandings of affect, intimacy, politics, and identity. With marked tenderness, the contributors to this book reflect on Sedgwick's many critical inventions, from her elucidation of poetry's close relation to criticism and development of new versions of queer performativity to highlighting the power of writing to engender new forms of life. As the essays in this book demonstrate, Sedgwick's work is not only an ongoing vital force in queer theory and affect theory; it can help us build a more positive world in the midst of the bleak contemporary moment.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:©2019

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Duke University Press
Place of Publication:Durham
Language:eng
Publication Date:©2019

The Physical Object

Description:313 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : : illustrations (chiefly color) ; : 23 cm.

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9781478005001, 1478005009, 9781478006312, 1478006315
oclc:on1083458487
LC Classification:PS3569.E316
Dewey Decimal:818/.5409

Subjects

Affekt Criticism, interpretation, etc Écrits d'homosexuels -- Histoire et cri… Gays' writings -- History and criticism History Homosexualität Homosexualité et littérature -- Histoir… Homosexuality and literature Homosexuality and literature -- History… Identität LITERARY CRITICISM -- Gay & Lesbian Queer-Theorie Sedgwick, Eve Kosofsky