By Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick
Novel observing is the 1st number of queer feedback at the heritage of the radical. The participants to this quantity navigate new territory in literary thought with essays that implicitly problem the "hermeneutic of suspicion" frequent in present severe conception. In a gorgeous introductory essay, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick delineates the chances for a feedback that will be "reparative" instead of cynical or paranoid. The startlingly innovative essays within the quantity discover new severe practices that may weave the pleasures and disorientations of examining into the cloth of queer analyses.Through discussions of a various array of British, French, and American novels—including significant canonical novels, best-sellers, children’s fiction, and technology fiction—these essays discover queer worlds of style, texture, pleasure, and ennui, targeting such matters as flogging, wizardry, exorcism, dance, Zionist hope, and web sexuality. analyzing the works of authors as diversified as Benjamin consistent, Toni Morrison, T. H. White, and William Gibson, in addition to canonical queer modernists comparable to James, Proust, Woolf, and Cather, members display the wealth of the way within which selves and groups reach extracting sustenance from the items of a tradition whose avowed hope has usually been to not maintain them. The dramatic reframing that those essays practice will make the importance of Novel staring at expand past the scope of queer reviews to literary feedback in general.Contributors. Stephen Barber, Renu Bora, Anne Chandler, James Creech, Tyler Curtain, Jonathan Goldberg, Joseph Litvak, Michael Lucey, Jeff Nunokawa, Cindy Patton, Jacob Press, Robert F. Reid-Pharr, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, Melissa Solomon, Kathryn Bond Stockton, John Vincent, Maurice Wallace, Barry Weller
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All of this is to suggest that the cultural awareness that some men existed as a different type of sexual person, a homosexual, came into existence during this period. Thus, one might describe the trials of Oscar Wilde as giving birth to homohysteria. For example, the day news of Wilde’s conviction became public, gay men fled England in droves. But whereas Wilde put a face on homosexuality, Sigmund Freud explained its etiology. In his Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality (1905), Freud theorized that sexuality was not innate.
I fi nd the works Adrienne Rich important to understanding heteronormativity. Her influential article, Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence (1980) popularized the term compulsory heterosexuality, which critiqued the cultural assumption that both males and females are either biologically or psychologically predisposed to heterosexuality. Whereas Chodorow described a near-seamless socialization among females who passively receive the gendered and sexed identity of their mothers, Rich responded by questioning why and how, if theories like Chodorow’s are tenable, women would redirect their emotional attachment from that of either mom or other women on to men.
Essentially, her theory entangles male homosexuality with feminine expression, and male heterosexuality with masculinity. For Chodorow, a male who maintains a feminine identity must also be homosexual. These polarized constructions of male/female and homosexual/heterosexual over simplify a rich diversity of human behaviors, rather than understanding them as a more complex and fluid continuum. I critique Chodorow for viewing gender identity as cemented within one’s formative years (my gender identity certainly has changed over the years) and I also critique her simplified binaries of sexual and gendered identities (there is more than just gay and straight).