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Woven Spaces: Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick's Dialogue On Love

2006; Taylor & Francis; Volume: 16; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1080/07407700600744568

1748-5819

Katy Hawkins,

Religious Studies and Spiritual Practices

This examination of Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick's A Dialogue on Love is part of a larger project that studies unusual illness narratives to determine how experimentation with form facilitates new ways of understanding bodily crisis. Sedgwick's approach to metastatic breast cancer develops the theoretical concepts from across her oeuvre; A Dialogue layers theories of nonlinear time, hybrid form, and intersubjective relation within a 17th-century mode of Japanese linked verse called haibun. Close engagement with these historical, formal and theoretical matrices reveal how Sedgwick's interventions in queer theory achieve their most radical expression in her illness narrative, which has not received adequate critical attention as an important extension of her scholarship.