Submitted by: Maria Julia Rossi, Assistant Professor, Dept. of Modern Languages and Literature, John Jay College
Click to read online: Introduction: Queerer than Fiction
Studies in the Novel
Vol. 28, No. 3, QUEERER THAN FICTION (fall 1996), pp. 277-280. Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick published critical writings on the ambiguities of sexual identity in fiction. She helped create the discipline known as Queer Studies.
This work “Queerer than Fiction” published in Studies in the Novel is a very condensed and short version of her weak theories approach. Queer theory textual interpretation and hermeneutics may encompass a number of reparative practices, including the obvious one known as camp. The reparative nature of these interpretations allows readers to feel hope for the future and rise about the paranoia induced by a uncaring and homophobic society. This notion of reparative reading as a way of addressing suspicion and paranoia is rooted in the theories of Melanie Klein.
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