Berlant Reading Sedgwick

1. Auflage 2019
ISBN: 978-1-4780-0533-9
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 336 Seiten

Reihe: Theory Q

The contributors to Reading Sedgwick reflect on the long and influential career of Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, whose pioneering work in queer theory has transformed understandings of affect, intimacy, politics, and identity.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Berlant, Lauren

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften Semiotik
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies: Homosexualität, LGBTQ+

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface. Reading Sedgwick, Then and Now / Lauren Berlant 1
Introduction. "An Open Mesh of Possibilities": The Necessity of Eve Sedgwick in Dark Times / Ramzi Fawaz 6
Note. From H. A. Sedgwick / H. A. Sedgwick 34
1. What Survives / Lauren Berlant and Lee Edelman 37
2. Proust at the End / Judith Butler 63
3. For Beauty Is a Series of Hypotheses? Sedgwick as Fiber Artist / Jason Edwards 72
4. In / Denis Flannery 92
5. Early and Earlier Sedgwick / Jane Gallop 113
6. Eve's Future Figures / Jonathan Goldberg 121
7. Sedgwick's Perverse Close Reading and the Question of an Erotic Ethics / Meredith Kruse 132
8. On the Eve of the Future / Michael Moon 141
9. Race, Sex, and the Incommensurate: Gary Fisher with Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick / José Esteban Muñoz 152
10. Sedgwick Inexhaustible / Chris Nealon 166
11. The Age of Frankenstein / Andrew Parker 178
12. Queer Patience: Sedgwick's Identity Narratives / Karin Sellberg 189
13. Weaver's Handshake: The Aesthetics of Chronic Objects (Sedgwick, Emerson, James) / Michael D. Snediker 203
14. Eighteen Things I Love about You / Melissa Solomon 236
15. Eve's Triangles: Queer Studies Beside Itself / Robyn Wiegman 242
Afterword / Kathryn Bond Stockton 274
Acknowledgments 279
Bibliography 281
Contributors 295
Index 299

Über Autor(innen)

Lauren Berlant is George M. Pullman Distinguished Service Professor at the University of Chicago, coauthor of The Hundreds and author of Cruel Optimism, both also published by Duke University Press.