There are no discussion topics on this book yet. For much of my adult life, I have felt a special burden for ministry to homosexuals.
At times maybe she was a bit self-indulgent, there was enough traces of self-mockery to make this forgivable, even enjoyable. Theory generally really makes my brain hurt, and this book was not the exception. How do you know your kids are straight? Just a kpsofsky while we sign you in to your Goodreads account. It was a challenging book but a very interesting and intelectually provoking book. As Christians, I believe episgemology is important for us to understand. This website uses cookies to improve your experience while you navigate through the website.
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This category only includes cookies that ensures basic functionalities and security features of the website. Language is very powerful — it can make people fall in love, it can entertain, it can enlighten, but it can also breed hatred and misunderstanding, it can lie, it can kill. View all 5 comments. 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 problematic with a highly dense text that is resistant to a simple reading as said subject matter itself. This makes for a reading experience that is as highly interesting as it can be frustrating.
Time and time again one finds oneself going back a few lines to disentangle the semantic bog strewn across very long paragraphs riddled with often obscure terms.
It is the kind of book that requires a second read while voiding that very possibility by the very nature of the text. Sedgwick seems very aware that this is her approach inbuilds the main theme of instability of possible semantic attributions into the very fabric of the text itself so that it becomes structural in more senses than one.
Whether she realizes sergwick is also likely to turn off potential readers who would otherwise gladly explore the ideas expoused in said text is another question. Around this axis Sedgwick works out an analysis of seminal no pun intended texts in kosofskyy literature. Given how non-pellucid Sedgwick herself is, it is not surprising that Henry James should feature so prominently.
If James were born in the 20th century and turned to queer theory, I expect he would write very much as Sedgwick does, which is oddly enchanting, in a way. Familiarity with these works is mandatory, rereadings may even be in order otherwise an already oblique text veers into unintelligibility. Melville and Billy Budd This was perhaps my favorite chapter. Issues of articulation, of silencing and pacifying homosexual tensions give it an extra sense of relevance.
Oscar Wilde and The Picture of Dorian Gray Surprisingly enough this chapter was not as long or thorough as one might expect. Given the importance the text has had for queer writers, readers kksofsky queer-ness in thw, Sedgwick does not invest as much as one might like in her analysis. Henry James and The Beast in the Jungle This cposet a short story that not even dedicated James readers will immediately bring to memory, assuming they have even read it I had not. It proposes an alternate interpretation to the orthodox one by reading the characters as dancing in and around the closet.
Ideas of self-blindness and internalized homophobia that goes so deep it becomes destructive of the self are presented with the typical overabundance of verbosity but are convincing for all that. It deconstructs the mechanisms through which a queer individual goes from simply suffering epistenology the stifling effects of homophic repression to actively enforcing them. Proust and A la Reserche By far the most fun chapter to read and probably the one that is both clearest on sections and obfuscating on others.
Sedgick self-inserts, intentionally so, throughout most of this one. This website uses cookies to improve your experience while you navigate through the website. Out of these cookies, the cookies that are categorized as necessary are stored on your browser as they are as essential for the working of basic functionalities of the website.
We also use third-party cookies that help us analyze and understand how you use this website. These cookies will be stored in your browser only with your consent. You also have the option to opt-out of these cookies. Also how we all bear otherness in ourselves and xenophobia is fear of BEING the strange rather than a seperated out fear of the strange.
Through readings of Melville, Nietzsche, Wilde, James, and Proust, Sedgwick shows how questions of sexual definition are at the heart of every form of representation in this century. English Literature and Male Homosocial Desire Hardwickwhere the majority decision cites a seemingly unbroken line of prohibition of sodomy encompassing the Bible, Roman law, Churh law, British common law, and the laws of the various colonies, later US States.
This reading thought me be proud and not live in the closet of society or allow anyone whom I love, whether queer, straight, white or colored. This is definitely a good analysis of the function of the closet in homosexuality. It proposes an alternate interpretation to the orthodox one by reading the characters as dancing in and around the closet. Philosophy eeve Literature, Volume 15, Number 2, Octoberpp.
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. Epistemology literature books Queer studies Contemporary philosophical literature. Contents Epistemology of the Closet. Henry James and The Beast in the Jungle This is a short story that not even dedicated James readers will immediately bring to memory, assuming they have even read it I had not.
Nov 11, Zacharygs rated it really liked it. To see what your friends thought of this book, please sign up. Which is to say that Sedwick tackles the subject matter that she admits is highly problematic with a highly dense text that is resistant to a simple reading as said subject matter itself. Aug 17, Tina rated it really liked it Shelves: As Christians, I believe this is important for us to understand. Epistemology of the Closet focuses on other literary works that reflect the social and political ideas of queer theorists.
Being raised in Massachusetts in the middle class, my perception of acceptance is likely to be pretty skewed toward liberal notions of equality, acceptance, etc.
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