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'Epistemology of the Closet' is an exciting book. It looks into the very physiognomy of 'closet,' and assays the work of some great authors such as Proust, Joyce, Lawrence, and Wilde. Even when one is familiar with these writers, it is fascinating to study their works with the perspective of 'Closet Leggi tutto

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 frien Leggi tutto

Fairly early on Sedgwick characterizes this project, in lieu of a warning of sorts, as 'not pellucid'. This is a very accurate assessment, both in terms of content and regarding the form of Epistemology of the Closet . Which is to say that Sedwick tackles the subject matter that she admits is highly Leggi tutto

I've read parts of this over many years, but only now have I finished it. I cannot do justice here to its complexities. This is rather predictable. The book helped to start a whole subgenre of literary and cultural theory; although many of its claims are historical, so its also important to those wh Leggi tutto

Life changing book for me, what a tour de force of gayness, intelligence, fun! And I stress, intelligence: Sedgwick is operating on another level here, making me interested enough in the obscure Melville novella Billy Budd to make me write fanfiction for it, pages dense and then a glimmer of light c Leggi tutto

very challenging, at times clarificatory in its brightness, but never accusatory in its shining of light on the homosexual in a historical and literary context, sedgwick reconsiders the very concept of sexuality, and opens up discussions towards a dismantling, or rethinking of sexual and gendered bi Leggi tutto

For much of my adult life, I have felt a special burden for ministry to homosexuals. To better equip myself for ministry to this people group, I have committed myself to reading books in the field of “queer theory”, in the hopes of coming to a better understanding of a point of view that is foreign Leggi tutto

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. Leggi tutto

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 convincin Leggi tutto