Epistemology of the Closet, Updated with a New Preface by Sedgwick, Eve Kosofsky

Epistemology of the Closet, Updated with a New Preface (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780520254060)

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Epistemology of the Closet, Updated with a New Preface by Sedgwick, Eve Kosofsky

Epistemology of the Closet, Updated with a New Preface

$34.95
Epistemology of the Closet, Updated with a New Preface by Sedgwick, Eve Kosofsky

Epistemology of the Closet, Updated with a New Preface

$34.95
Format: Paperback
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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.

Author: Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick
ISBN-10: 0520254066
ISBN-13: 9780520254060
Publisher: University of California Press
Language: English
Published: 01/17/2008
Pages: 280
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.83lbs
Size: 8.96h x 6.06w x 0.69d
By Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick
By Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick
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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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