クローゼットの認識論―セクシュアリティの20世紀 [単行本]

前作‘Between Men’では、主に19世紀の英文学を素材として、男女の関係の核心に、男同士の性的欲望（ホモセクシュアル）を排した男同士の連帯（ホモソーシャル）があることが論じられた。本書では、その到達点から、19世紀末の文学・思想を素材とし、（男性の）ホモ/へテロセクシュアルの定義の問題が、「クローゼット」と「カミングアウト」、秘密と発覚、私的と公的といった二項対立を手がかりとして論じられている。今作では意識的に焦点が、前作のフェミニズムからアンチ・ホモフォビアに移されているが、ホモソーシャル概念が一人歩きしている現在、前作の翻訳も待ち望まれる。（千田有紀）
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Since the late 1980s, queer studies and theory have become vital to the intellectual and political life of the United States. This has been due, in no small degree, to the influence of Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick's critically acclaimed "Epistemology of the Closet". Working from classic texts of European and American writers - including Melville, James, Nietzsche, Proust, and Wilde -Sedgwick analyzes a turn-of-the-century historical moment in which sexual orientation became as important a demarcation of personhood as gender had been for centuries. In her preface to this updated edition Sedgwick places the book both personally and historically, looking specifically at the horror of the first wave of the AIDS epidemic and its influence on the text. --このテキストは、 ペーパーバック 版に関連付けられています。

同性愛を異質化し、周縁へと追いやる異性愛主義は、19世紀末に始まったものにすぎない。メルヴィル、ニーチェ、プルーストなどを読み解きながら、その中にホモ/ヘテロセクシュアルの分断を不可能にする揺れを発見し、セクシュアリティの混沌を見つめる意欲作。

同性愛を異質化する異性愛主義は19世紀末にはじまったものにすぎない。メルヴィル、ニーチェ、プルーストなどを読み解きながら、その中にホモ/ヘテロの分断を不可能にする揺れを発見し、セクシュアリティの混沌を見つめる。

Since the late 1980s, queer studies and theory have become vital to the intellectual life of the U.S. This has been, to no small degree, due to the popularity of Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick's critically acclaimed Epistemology of the Closet. Working from classic texts of European and American writers--including Herman Melville, Henry James, Marcel Proust, and Oscar Wilde--Sedgwick delineates a historical moment in which sexual identity became as important a demarcation of personhood as gender had been for centuries.

Sedgwick's literary analysis, while provocative and often startling (you will never read Billy Budd or The Picture of Dorian Gray the same way again), is simply the basis for a larger project of examining and analyzing how the categories of "homosexual" and "heterosexual" continue to shape almost all aspects of contemporary thought. Epistemology of the Closet is a sometimes-dense work, but one filled with wit and empathy. Sedgwick writes with great intelligence and an eye for irony, but always makes clear that her theories and critical acumen are in the service of a politic that seeks to make the world a better and more humane place for everyone. An extraordinary book that reshapes how we think about literature, sexuality, and everyday life. --Michael Bronski
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The homosexual closet, by Sedgwick's yardstick, is "the defining structure for gay oppression in this century." She disagrees strongly with those who separate gays and straights as "distinct kinds of persons," with no common humanity. Her close readings of Melville's Billy Budd , Wilde's Dorian Gray and of Proust, Nietzsche, Henry James and Thackeray bristle with keen observations relating entrenched fears of same-sex relationships to contemporary gay-bashing and obvious displays of heterosexual or "macho" attitudes. But Sedgwick ( Between Men ) does not prove her overstated thesis that homo/hetero distinction obtains with gender, class and race in determining "all modern Western identity and social organization." Obtuse, cumbersome, academic prose limits the appeal of this treatise.
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Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick is Distinguished Professor of English at City University of New York Graduate Center. Her books include Between Men, Tendencies, A Dialogue on Love, and Touching Feeling. --このテキストは、 ペーパーバック 版に関連付けられています。