TENDENCIES EDITED BY

MICHELE AINA BARALE,

JONATHAN GOLDBERG,

MICHAEL MOON,

AND EVE KOSOFSKY

SEDGWICK Eve Kosofiky Sedgwick

DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data appear on the last printed page of this book. "Queer and Now" first appeared in Mark Edmund­ son, ed., Wild Orchids and Trotsky: Messages from American Universities (New York: Penguin Books, 1993), pp. 237-66, © 1993 by Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick. "Privilege of Unknowing" previously appeared in Gen­ ders 1 (Spring 1988): 102-24, and is reprinted by permission. "Jane Austen and the Masturbating Girl" first appeared in Critical Inquiry 17.4 (Summer 1991): 818-37, © 1991 by Eve

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"Epidemics of the Will" previously appeared in Jonathan Crary and Sanford Kwinter, ecls., Incorporations (New York: Zone, 1992), pp. 582-95, and is reprinted by permission. "Nationalisms and Sexualities" previously appeared in Andrew Parker, Mary Russo, Doris Sommer, and Patricia Yaeger, eds., Nationalisms and Sexualities (New York: Routledge, 1991), pp. 235-45, and is re­ printed by permission. "How to Bring Your Kids Up Gay" first appeared in Social Text 29 (1991): 18-27, © 1991 by Social Text, and is reprinted by permission. "Willa Cather and Others" first appeared as "Across , Across Sexuality: Willa Cather and Others," in South Atlantic Quarterly 88.1 (Winter 1989): 53­ 72, © 1989 by Duke University Press. "A Poem Is Being Written" previously appeared in Representations 17 (Winter 1987): 110-43, © 1987 by the Regents of the University of California, and is re­ printed by permission. "Divinity" previously appeared in Discourse 13.1 (Fall-Winter 1990-91): 12-39, and is reprinted by permission. "White Glasses" first appeared in the Yale Journal of Criticism 5.3 (Fall 1992): 193-208, © 1992 by , and IS reprinted by permission.

In memory of Michael Lynch,

and with love to him.