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Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, née le 2 mai 1950 à Dayton et morte le 12 avril 2009 à New York, est une universitaire et féministe des États-Unis, spécialisée dans les études gaies et lesbiennes et queer. Wikipedia  

✵ 2. mai 1950 – 12. avril 2009
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Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick: Citations en anglais

“Seemingly, this society wants its children to know nothing; wants its queer children to conform or (and this is not a figure of speech) die; and wants not to know that it is getting what it wants.”

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Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick

Tendencies (Duke University Press, 1993), p. 3

“One of the things that 'queer' can refer to: the open mesh of possibilities, gaps, overlaps, dissonances and resonances, lapses and excesses of meaning when the constituent elements of anyone's gender, of anyone's sexuality aren't made (or can't be made) to signify monolithically.”

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Tendencies (Duke University Press, 1993), p. 8

“I've heard of many people who claim they'd as soon their children were dead as gay. What it took me a long time to believe is that these people are saying no more than the truth. They even speak for others too delicate to use the cruel words.”

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Tendencies (Duke University Press, 1993), p. 2

“With respect to the homosocial/homosexual style, it seems to be possible to divide Victorian men among three rough categories according to class. The first includes aristocratic men and small groups of their friends and dependents, including bohemians and prostitutes; for these people, by 1865, a distinct homosexual role and culture seem already to have been in existence in England… It seems to have constituted a genuine subculture, facilitated in the face of an ideologically hostile dominant culture by money, privilege, internationalism, and for the most part, the ability to command secrecy… This role is closely related to — is in fact, through Oscar Wilde, the antecedent of — the particular stereotype that at least until recently has characterized American middle-class gay homosexuality; its strongest associations, as we have noted, are with effeminacy, transvestism, promiscuity, prostitution, continental European culture, and the arts.”

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Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick

Between Men: English Literature and Male Homosocial desire (New York: Columbia University Press, 1985), pp. 172-173

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