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... and politics now institutionalized in queer studies under the rubric of antinormativity. By focusing on Sedgwick’s appetite for incoherence, the double bind, and nondialectical understandings of contradiction, this essay studies the elegant and cogent model of reading found in Sedgwick’s work in order to value...

... Rossellini’s film into conversation with ongoing debates about “reparative reading” and its alternatives. Noting that Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick encounters, or rather avoids, a “deinstitutionalized person on the street” in “Paranoid Reading and Reparative Reading,” this essay highlights the film’s very different...

... Fiction . New York : Columbia UP , 1985 . 3 – 28 . Sedgwick Eve . Epistemology of the Closet . Berkeley : U of California P , 1990 . Sedgwick Eve . Tendencies . Durham : Duke UP , 1993 . Sollors Werner . Introduction . Sollors, Return ii – xxiii . Sollors...

.... issue of differences 21 . 3 ( 2010 ): 112 – 39 . Scott Joan Wallach . “ Gender: A Useful Category of Historical Analysis .” Gender and the Politics of History . Rev. ed. New York : Columbia UP , 1999 . Sedgwick Eve Kosofsky . “ Paranoid Reading and Reparative Reading...

... Context . Madison: U of Wisconsin P, 1987 . Pratt, Lloyd. “Progress, Labor, Revolution: The Modern Times of African American Life Writing.” Novel: A Forum on Fiction 34.1 ( 2000 ): 56 –76. Sedgwick, Catharine Maria. Hope Leslie; or, Early times in Massachusetts . New York: White, Gallaher...

... to drug war biopolitics; it argues that Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick and José Esteban Muñoz’s paradigm-shifting formulations of reparative reading (and reparative reading as utopian reading) are underwritten by the ongoing alliance between state and capital to set drug policy in the Americas that criminalizes...

... , and Yeager Patricia . New York : Routledge , 1992 . 218 – 34 . Ross Andrew . “ The Uses of Camp .” No Respect: Intellectuals and Popular Culture . New York : Routledge , 1989 . 135 – 70 . Sedgwick Eve Kosofsky . Epistemology of the Closet. Berkeley : U of California P...

... of Life.” Trans. Gary Brown. Unmodern Observations . Ed. William Arrowsmith. New Haven: Yale up, 1990 . 87 -145. Schor, Naomi. “Depression in the Nineties.” Bad Objects: Essays Popular and Unpopular . Durham: Duke up, 1995 . 159 -63. Sedgwick, Eve Kosofsky. Between Men: English Literature...

... Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick homosexual intolerable Marcel Proust seductive Works Cited Bersani Leo . The Culture of Redemption . Cambridge : Harvard UP , 1990 . Bersani Leo . “ The Culture of Redemption: Marcel Proust and Melanie Klein .” Critical Inquiry 12 . 2 ( 1986...

... Foucault, Gayle Rubin, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, and Michael Warner, but it also underwrites the critical analyses and political activisms of the field’s most important interlocutors, including feminist theory, women of color feminism, and transgender studies. Whether as political or analytic description...

... emphasis). Bersani assumptively treats such love as “fundamental” to male homosexuality (103). We could say, with an eye toward Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick’s work (which also has a part in this essay), that gay male love of cock is in Homos axiomatic. 2 Bersani courts the charge of masculinism—which nearly...

... and the political ( Sedgwick, “Paranoid” ), it has influenced these debates considerably. Eve Sedgwick famously opposed reparative reading to the paranoid techniques of Marxist and Freudian criticism that dominated the 1980s and 1990s. In the paranoid model, Sedgwick argues, texts are understood to manifest...

... Smith’s poetry. In this scene, fear nearly “kick[s]” Smith from a pleasant dinner into a “depressive spiral”—which is precisely the concern that Sedgwick and Butler raise about negative affect. At a certain extreme, self-reflexivity can become self-beratement, which depletes the self’s relational...

... Category of Analysis .” Gender and The Politics of History . New York : Columbia UP , 1988 . 28 – 52 . Scott Joan W. Women Who Have Only Paradoxes to Offer: French Feminists from 1789–1944 . Cambridge : Harvard , forthcoming. Sedgwick Eve Kosofsky . Epistemology of the Closet...

... of overanalysis find uncanny echoes in the arguments made, from within the academic humanities, by what has been dubbed the “postcritique” movement. This is an admittedly unwieldy umbrella under which I include Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick’s reparative reading, Stephen Best and Sharon Marcus’s surface reading...

..., that—for all their infrequent reference to “queer”—are often fingered as the ur-texts of queer theory. I refer, of course, to Butler’s Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity and Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick’s Epistemology of the Closet . 7 Fortuitously paired by the date...

... Gayle and Butler Judith . “ Sexual Traffic .” Interview. differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies 6 . 2–3 ( 1994 ): 70 – 92 . Sedgwick Eve Kosofsky . Between Men: English Literature and Male Homosocial Desire . New York : Columbia UP , 1985 . Sedgwick Eve...

..., Robin (Scanner). The Garden Is Full of Metal . Sub Rosa, 1998 . Schwenger, Peter. Fantasm and Fiction: On Textual Envisioning . Stanford: Stanford up, 1999 . Sedgwick, Eve Kosofsky. Tendencies . Durham: Duke up, 1993 . Serres, Michel. Genesis . Trans. Geneviève James and James Nielson...

... than other forms of sexual activity. In Lorde’s aside, I also see a little of Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick’s discussion of masturbation in Jane Austen, where she argues for the onanist as a sexual orientation that precedes a homo/hetero binary, one that cannot be classified as a minor orientation but has...

... . “ Eroticism in the Patriarchal Order .” Diacritics 6 ( 1976 ): 46 - 53 . Rubin Gayle . “ The Traffic in Women: Notes on the ‘Political Economy’ of Sex .” Toward an Anthropology of Women . Ed. Reiter Rayna . New York : Monthly Review , 1975 . 157 - 210 . Sedgwick Eve Kosofsky...