Reading Sedgwick
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Reading Sedgwick

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Reading Sedgwick

About this book

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 Reading Sedgwick 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 Reading Sedgwick 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.

Contributors. Lauren Berlant, Kathryn Bond Stockton, Judith Butler, Lee Edelman, Jason Edwards, Ramzi Fawaz, Denis Flannery, Jane Gallop, Jonathan Goldberg, Meridith Kruse, Michael Moon, JosƩ Esteban MuƱoz, Chris Nealon, Andrew Parker, H. A. Sedgwick, Karin Sellberg, Michael D. Snediker, Melissa Solomon, Robyn Wiegman

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Contents
  3. Preface. Reading Sedgwick, Then and Now
  4. Introduction. ā€œAn Open Mesh of Possibilitiesā€: The Necessity of Eve Sedgwick in Dark Times
  5. Note. From H. A. Sedgwick
  6. 1. What Survives
  7. 2. Proust at the End
  8. 3. For Beauty Is a Series of Hypotheses? Sedgwick as Fiber Artist
  9. 4. In
  10. 5. Early and Earlier Sedgwick
  11. 6. Eveā€™s Future Figures
  12. 7. Sedgwickā€™s Perverse Close Reading and the Question of an Erotic Ethics
  13. 8. On the Eve of the Future
  14. 9. Race, Sex, and the Incommensurate: Gary Fisher with Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick
  15. 10. Sedgwick Inexhaustible
  16. 11. The Age of Frankenstein
  17. 12. Queer Patience: Sedgwickā€™s Identity Narratives
  18. 13. Weaverā€™s Handshake: The Aesthetics of Chronic Objects (Sedgwick, Emerson, James)
  19. 14. Eighteen Things I Love about You
  20. 15. Eveā€™s Triangles: Queer Studies beside Itself
  21. Afterword
  22. Acknowledgments
  23. Bibliography
  24. Contributors
  25. Index