Come as you are ; after Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick / Jonathan Goldberg.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Goldberg, Jonathan, author.

Sedgwick, Eve Kosofsky, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sedgwick, Eve Kosofsky--Criticism and interpretation.

Homosexuality and literature--History--21st century.

Homosexuality and literature.

Homosexuality and literature--History--20th century.

Gay people's writings--History and criticism--Theory, etc.

Gay people's writings.

Queer theory.

Genre:

Essays.

Lectures.

Literary criticism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 online resource 129 pages) : color illustrations

Place of Publication:

Brooklyn, NY punctum books 2021

[Santa Barbara, California], Earth, Milky Way : dead letter office, BABEL Working Group, an imprint of punctum books, 2021.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"This book brings together two pieces of writing. In the first, "After Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick," Jonathan Goldberg assesses her legacy, prompted mainly by writing about Sedgwick's work that has appeared in the years since her death in April 2009. Writing by Lauren Berlant, Jane Gallop, Katy Hawkins, Scott Herring, Lana Lin, and Philomina Tsoukala are among those considered as he explores questions of queer temporality and the breaching of ontological divides. Main concerns include the relationship of Sedgwick's later work in Proust, fiber, and Buddhism to her fundamental contribution to queer theory, and the axes of identification across difference that motivated her work and attachment to it. "Come As You Are," the other piece of writing, is a previously unpublished talk Sedgwick gave in 1999-2000. It represents a significant bridge between her earlier and later work, sharing with her book Tendencies the ambition to discover the "something" that makes queer inextinguishable. In this piece, Sedgwick does that by contemplating her own mortality alongside her creative engagement with Buddhist thought, especially the in-between states named bardos and her newfound energy for making things. These were represented in a show of her fabric art, "Floating Columns/In the Bardo," that accompanied her talk, a number of images of which are included in this book. They feature floating figures suspended in the realization of death. They are objects produced by Sedgwick, made of fabric; they come from her, yet are discontinuous with her, occupying a mode of existence that exceeds the span of human life and the confines of individual identity. They could be put beside the queer transitive identifications across difference that Goldberg's essay explores"--Publisher's description.

Contents:

Prefatory

After Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick. "Then and now" ; After ; "Reality and realization" ; "Twisted temporalities," "Queer temporality" ; "Eve Sedgwick's 'Other materials'" ; "Come as you are" ; "Woven spaces" ; After (again) ; "A pedagogy of love"

Come as you are. Come as you are ; Floating columns/In the Bardo

Illustrations. SUNY Stony Brook, fall 1999 ; CUNY Graduate Center, spring 2000.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Contains:

Container of: Goldberg, Jonathan.

Container of: Sedgwick, Eve Kosofsky.

ISBN:

1-953035-44-2

OCLC:

1247118864