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Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick · 1990
A foundational work of queer literary criticism examining the epistemology of sexual identity and the closet as an organizing principle in nineteenth and twentieth-century literature, analyzing texts by Melville, James, Wilde, Proust, and Nietzsche.
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What this book knows
Modern Western culture's defining epistemological fault line runs through the unstable, coercive binary of homosexual/heterosexual knowledge and ignorance.
self-and-identity
It is indicative for homophobia in a way it cannot be for other oppressions... the epistemological distinctiveness of gay identity and gay situation in our culture.
ECE-RC-083Skeleton in the closet: a private or concealed trouble in one's house or circumstances, ever present, and ever liable to come into view.
ECE-RC-074erotic-as-power
No man must be able to ascertain that he is not homosexual. A relatively small exertion of physical or legal compulsion potentially rules many.
ECE-RC-195To point to the emptiness of the secret is the same gesture as attribution of a compulsory content about heterosexuality—'He should have desired her.'
ECE-RC-212Her knowledge affords a slight irony, an advantage—yet he can use it as 'the buried treasure of her knowledge,' a little hoard.
ECE-RC-221shame
The bravest man among us is afraid of himself. People are afraid of themselves, nowadays... the mutilation of the savage has a trace in us.
ECE-RC-146Illuminates
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