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Epistemology of the Closet (Paperback)
$28.62 - Save $1.51 (5%) - RRP $30.13 Free delivery worldwide (to United States and
all these other countries) Usually dispatched within 24 hours | |Short Description for Epistemology of the ClosetSince the late 1980s, queer studies and theory have become vital to the intellectual and political life of the United States. Working from texts of European and American writers, this work 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.
Full description- Publisher: University of California Press
- Published: 17 January 2008
- Format: Paperback 280 pages
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- Categories: Literary Theory | Gay & Lesbian Studies | Gay Studies (Gay Men)
- ISBN 13: 9780520254060 ISBN 10: 0520254066
- Sales rank: 49,840
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Full description for Epistemology of the Closet
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.
