Tendencies (Paperback)

Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick
Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
 9780415108157
0-415-10815-2

Combining poetry, wit, polemic and dazzling scholarship with memorial and autobiography, these essays have set new standards of passion and truthfulness for current theoretical writing. The essays range.

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from discussions of Diderot, Oscar Wilde and Henry James to queer kids, political correctness adn the poetics of spanking. What unites Tendencies is the vision of a new queer activism and thought which, however demanding and dangerous, can also be intent, inclusive and fun.