Who is speaking? Queering autobiography in Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick’s writing Cover Image

Kto mówi? Queerowanie autobiograficzności u Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick
Who is speaking? Queering autobiography in Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick’s writing

Author(s): Katarzyna Trzeciak
Subject(s): Social Sciences, Language and Literature Studies, Fine Arts / Performing Arts, Media studies, Communication studies
Published by: Wydawnictwo Naukowe Uniwersytetu Szczecińskiego
Keywords: queer studies; psychoanalysis; hermeneutics of suspicion; autobiography; community

Summary/Abstract: The article presents some connections between Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick’s concept of queer and her first person academic theory. Beginning from defining queer as a process of being across, I explain what is queer autobiography (by some comments on Sedgwick’s A Dialogue on Love, 1997), and how we can relate this idea to some more theoretical transformations in Sedgwick’s general project. I am especially interesting in going beyond hermeneutics of suspicion toward reparative reading as a practice of rethinking community. The second goal is to adapt this theoretical transformation with Sedgwick’s own writings.

  • Issue Year: 10/2018
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 13-24
  • Page Count: 12
  • Language: Polish
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