A review by cythera15
Epistemology of the Closet by Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick

5.0

What an amazing book! I've been working through it for a while for my theory reading group and finally, I finished it! Sedgwick is very clever and original. Some of the chapters were less clear because of the way she refers to texts I have not read. I wonder if I will be as impressed/convinced after reading the original text. While many in our reading group sympathized with Sedgwick's reading of "Billy Budd" as "gay," it seemed that a lot of people also had second thoughts on her reading.