Regarding Sedgwick : Essays on Queer Culture and Critical Theory

Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick is one of the most important figures in the history of modern gender studies. This book, which features an interview with Sedgwick, is a collection of new essays by established scholars "This anthology demonstrates that the field of queer theory has made and continues to make an important contribution to our understanding of sexuality in all its forms." -- William S. Hampl, The Gay and Lesbian Review "Kathryn Bond Stockton's Eve's Queer Child is one of the richest and rigorous--not to say laugh out loud humorous--essays that I've encountered in all of queer theory." -- William S. Hampl, The Gay and Lesbian Review "Regarding Sedgwick: Essays on Queer Culture and Critical Theory is the only book-length study of the writings of the influential queer theorist Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick...the editors have assembled an estimable collection of authors." -- William S. Hampl, The Gay and Lesbian Review "The power, range, and immense utility of Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick's restlessly evolving, always surprising work are put on conspicuous display by the many different kinds of writing brought together in this experimental collection." -- David M. Halperin, W. H. Auden Collegiate Professor of English Language and Literature, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor and author of ONE HUNDRED YEARS OF HOMOSEXUALITY and SAINT FOUCAULT. "Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick's writings exercise a deroutinizing effect on hard-held habits of thought. Reading her one feels one might, in fact, think anew. The contributors to Regarding Sedgwick celebrate and pursue this special quality of Sedgwick's. The result is a volume that is capacious, inventive, polyrhythmic, full of productive cross-purposes, sometimes wild or extravagant, and often moving. Michael Lucey, University of California, Berkeley." Cover......Page 1 Title......Page 4 Copyright......Page 5 CONTENTS......Page 6 Introduction Queer Moments: The Performative Temporalities of Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick......Page 8 Sedgwick’s Subjects and Others......Page 62 1 Mario Montez, For Shame......Page 64 2 Two Girls, Fat and Thin......Page 78 3 Capacity......Page 116 4 Theory Kindergarten......Page 128 5 If Love Were All: Reading Sedgwick Sentimentally......Page 150 Writing Ethics: Reading Cleaving......Page 170 6 Strategic Constructivism? Sedgwick’s Ethics of Inversion......Page 172 7 Eve’s Queer Child......Page 188 8 Flaming Iguanas, Dalai Pandas, and Other Lesbian Bardos (A few perimeter points)......Page 208 9 Reviewing Eve......Page 224 Envois......Page 234 10 When Whippoorwills Call......Page 236 11 This Piercing Bouquet: An Interview with Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick......Page 250 Selected Bibliography of Texts......Page 270 Notes on Contributors......Page 278 Index......Page 282 "Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick is one of the most original and influential thinkers in critical and gender theory. Her work includes such groundbreaking books as Epistemology of the Closet and Between Men: English Literature and Homo-social Desire, writings that have powerfully influenced ideas of the body, of literature, and of identities. Regarding Sedgwick brings together new essays by distinguished critics to provide a sustained critical engagement with Sedgwick's work. The volume includes an extensive interview with Sedgwick, in which she speaks of her work, and of the situation of queer studies, critical theory, and the academy at the turn of a millennium."--BOOK JACKET. From shame to shyness to shining-and, inevitably, back, and back again: the candor and cultural incisiveness of this itinerary seem to make Warhol an exemplary figure for a new project, an urgent one I think, of understanding how the dysphoric affect shame functions as a nexus of production: production, that is, of meaning, of personal presence, of politics, of performative and critical efficacy.