
ISBN: 9780520078741
author:
Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick
publishing house: University of California Press
publication date: 1991
-10
language:
English
binding: Paperback
price: USD 21.95
number of pages: 272
Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick
overview
What is at stake in male homo/heterosexual definition? Through readings of Melville, Nietzsche, Wilde, James and Proust, the author argues that the vexed imperatives to specify straight and gay identities have become central to every important form of knowledge of the 20th century.