Preface: Reading Sedgwick, then and now / Lauren Berlant -- Introduction: "An open mesh of possibilities?" : the necessity of Eve Sedgwick in dark times / Ramzi Fawaz -- Note / From H.A. Sedgwick -- What survives / Lauren Berlant and Lee Edelman -- Proust at the end / Judith Butler -- For beauty is a series of hypotheses? Sedgwick as fiber artist / Jason Edwards -- In / Denis Flannery -- Early and earlier Sedgwick / Jane Gallop -- Eve's future figures / Jonathan Goldberg -- Sedgwick's perverse close reading and the question of an erotic ethics / Meridith Kruse -- On the Eve of the future / Michael Moon -- Race, sex, and the incommensurate : Gary Fisher with Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick / José Esteban Muñoz -- Sedgwick inexhaustible / Chris Nealon -- The age of Frankenstein / Andrew Parker -- Queer patience : Sedgwick's identity narratives / Karin Sellberg -- Weaver's handshake : the aesthetics of chronic objects (Sedgwick, Emerson, James) / Michael D. Snediker -- Eighteen things I love about you / Melissa Solomon -- Eve's triangles : queer studies beside itself / Robyn Wiegman.
Summary:
Over the course of her long career, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick became one of the most important voices in queer theory, and her calls for reparative criticism and reading practices grounded in affect and performance have transformed understandings of affect, intimacy, politics, and identity. With marked tenderness, the contributors to this book reflect on Sedgwick's many critical inventions, from her elucidation of poetry's close relation to criticism and development of new versions of queer performativity to highlighting the power of writing to engender new forms of life. As the essays in this book demonstrate, Sedgwick's work is not only an ongoing vital force in queer theory and affect theory; it can help us build a more positive world in the midst of the bleak contemporary moment.
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