Epistemology of the Closet

Name: Epistemology of the Closet
Author: Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick

by Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick

Literary theory examining closeted sexuality and homophobia in American fiction

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Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick

American literary critic and queer theorist whose Between Men and Epistemology of the Closet are foundational texts of queer theory. She analyzed the structures of homosociality and homosexuality in 19th-century literature. Her work, with Butler's, defined queer theory as a discipline.

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