Book Cover Epistemology of the Closet

Epistemology of the Closet

of Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick

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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.

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Queer Queer Nonfiction Theory Philosophy LGBT Feminism Academic Gender Studies Gender Literary Criticism

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Book Details

  • Format Paperback
  • Pages 258 pages
  • Publisher University of California Press
  • Publication Date October 16th 1990
  • First Publication 1990
  • Language English
  • ISBN 9780520078741
  • Edition Not informed
  • Category LGBTQ+
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