Epistemology of the Closet
Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick
258 pages, Paperback
ISBN: 0520078748
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Language: English
Publish: 656060400000
AcademicFeminismGenderGender StudiesLGBTLiterary CriticismNonfictionPhilosophyQueerTheory
What is at stake in male homo/heterosexual definition? Through readings of Melville, Nietzsche, Wilde, James and Proust, the author argues that the vexed imperatives to specify straight and gay identities have become central to every important form of knowledge of the 20th century.