Research In Sedgwick’s Queer Theory And Literary Criticism

Queer theory rised in the1990s in the West, has now become an emerging Western theory.As one of the representatives and founders of queer theory, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick has important significance to reseach.But her worth is not yet recognized in our country. Therefore, I believe that for such an important scholar, describing her theory career,and carding, explaining her theories are quite necessary.The Sedgwick’s queer theory and literary criticism is the main object of study in this thesis. I conducted a detailed textual analysis of Sedgwick’s queer theory and literary criticism, and as a basis,for reference existing research results, partly combine Sedgwick’s queer theory with literature, history and social situation of our contry,to explore Sedgwick’s Queer theory and literary criticism.In the first part of this thesis,it is the introduction of Sedgwick’s academic activities and influence,including her academic experience, theoretical background and academic contribution and influence. In the second part and the core part,I elaborated three theoretical points of Sedgwick:homosocial, epistemology of the closet, queer performativities. Through these three specific points of the theoretical analysis, we were able to feel Sedgwick’s exploration of the relationship between men and power, the criticism to dualistic thinking and the thinking for emotional power of the queer community. Thirdly it is the analysis of Sedgwick’s literary criticism. I summarized the four main features of her literary criticism:a different kind of perspective, to dig the queer elements, opposed to dualism thinking, concentration and abstraction. Finally,I discussesde the possible impact and inspiration of her theory to China.By the study in my paper, I hopes to enrich the domestic information of the studies Sedgwick and queer theory,meanwhile to fill the gaps about Sedgwick’s theory, but also further promote the development of national queer theory. And ultimately achieve the effect of forward, causing concern for queer theory and Sedgwick more.