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Wstyd, teatralność i queerowa performatywność: sztuka powieściowa Henry’ego Jamesa
Shame, theatricality and queer performativity: Henry James's „The Art of Novel”

Author(s): Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick
Contributor(s): Joanna Bednarek (Translator)
Subject(s): Social Sciences, Gender Studies, Psychology, Sociology, Social psychology and group interaction
Published by: Instytut Badań Literackich Polskiej Akademii Nauk
Keywords: affects; identity; queer performativity; shame

Summary/Abstract: This text is part of a chapter from Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick’s monograph on Henry James, Touching Feeling: Affect, Pedagogy, Performativity. It concerns shame understood as an affect that forms the identity of queer/other subjects – but not only: shame also forms the constitutive moment of every identity, facilitating intersubjectivity and communication.

  • Issue Year: 2016
  • Issue No: 4
  • Page Range: 235-242
  • Page Count: 8
  • Language: Polish