Epistemology of the Closet

Posted on 15 July 2017 by Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick

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. New Download Kindle ePUB Epistemology of the Closet author Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick – kino-fada.fr I have been thinking a lot lately about how variable the gay experience is across America and around the world, and even by individual I have been recently seeing a guy from Venezuela who is only in the process of coming out He hasn t come out to his parents, but has come out to his American friends and classmates, as well as some of his close female cousins He has three brothers, and after coming out to one of them recently, he received the response that while his brother respects him, he do I have been thinking a lot lately about how variable the gay experience is across America and around the world, and even by individual I have been recently seeing a guy from Venezuela who is only in the process of coming out He hasn t come out to his parents, but has come out to his American friends and classmates, as well as some of his close female cousins He has three brothers, and after coming out to one of them recently, he received the response that while his brother respects him, he d...An interesting book One of those ones where trying to wrap your head around it gives you a headache in a good way I wish I had read the books she discussed in it For me the connection between unacknowledged male homosexuality and women s experience, even queer women s experience was convincingly shown by the text in addition many of the observations about being closetted known are transferrable as are many of the fears.Probably everyone should read it, or something like it to show how cu An interesting book One of those ones where trying to wrap your head around it gives you a headache in a good way I wish I had read the books she discussed in it For me the connection between unacknowledged male homosexuality and women s experience, even queer women s experience was convincingly shown by the text in addition many of the observations about being closetted known ...My feelings toward this book are laced with resentment and I haven t even read it yet However, I am becoming increasingly enraged with the way the metaphor of the closet is popularly employed with the attendant utter lack of acknowledgement that oppression and homophobia exist, and the implication that therefore queer people are obvs totes pathological pathetic liars And bad liars at that because all the smug straight people are laughing up their sleeves at the poor pathetic closeted My feelings to...thoroughly exhausting and utterly an important text, it demands patience and complete focus on the flip side, i really did enjoy the digressive techniqueI got about halfway through and I honestly don t care.Well, Eve Sedgwick is brilliant, as always, although her literary analysis is certainly a much lass breezier read than the amazing and much assigned introduction and first chapter of this book Part of the problem is that I haven t read a lot of the texts by dead white men that she analyzes, and that made some of the later chapters incredibly difficult to get though Chapter 2, on Billy Budd, was particularly torturous for me But, as in her other work, the insights that she eventually reaches Well, Eve Sedgwick is brilliant, as always, although her literary analysis is certainly a much lass breezier read than the amazing and much assigned introduction and first chapter of this book Part of the problem is that I haven t read a lot of the texts by dead white men that she analyzes, and that made some of the later chapters incredibly difficult to get though Chapter 2, on Billy Budd, was particularly torturous for me But, as in her other work, the insights that she eventually...This is definitely a good analysis of the function of the closet in homosexuality The introductory chapters were especially well written and fleshed out an influential cultural and social criticism The binarism chapters were the downside of Sedgwicks book The binarisms she ascribes to a section oftentimes did not fully come out of her following analysis of them Also it was especially hard to understand her chapter on Billy Budd which might be caused by my lack of having read the novel T This is definitely a good analysis of the function of the closet in homosexuality The introductory chapters were especially well written and fleshed out an influential cultural and social criticism The binarism c...I see a lot of people taking issue with this book because it s difficult to read, and so I want to dispel a misunderstanding right up front Sedgwick is not writing a pop history book for anyone interested in LGBT studies This is a book written by an academic, aimed at other professional academics Epistemology is not a narrative, it s about how the field of academia has understood sexuality, gender, and the concept of the closet It s full of theory, it s written in academic jargon, it s rea I see a lot of people taking issue with this book because it s difficult to read, and...Though requiring focused attention on the part of the reader, Sedgwick s seminal text reveals a virtuosic deconstruction and reassembling of of our cultural conversation around homosexual identity and the persistent power of the closet in 20th century thought.3.5

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15 July 2017

Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick