Inconsequence
Lesbian Representation and the Logic of Sexual Sequence
Annamarie Jagose
The field of lesbian studies is often framed in terms of the relation between lesbianism and invisibility. Annamarie Jagose here takes a radical new approach, suggesting that the focus on invisibility and visibility is perhaps not the most productive way of looking at lesbian representability. Jagose argues that the theoretical preoccupation with metaphors of visibility is part of the problem it attempts to remedy. In her account, the regulatory difference between heterosexuality and homosexuality relies less on codes of visual recognition than on a cultural adherence to the force of first order, second order sexual sequence. As Jagose points out, sequence does not simply specify what comes before and what comes after; it also implies precedence — what comes first and what comes second.Jagose reads canonical novels by Charles Dickens, Henry James, Virginia Woolf, and Daphne du Maurier, drawing upon their elaboration of sexual sequence. In these innovative readings, tropes such as first andsecond, origin and outcome, and heterosexuality and homosexuality are shown to reinforce heterosexual precedence. Inconsequence intervenes in cu
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| ISBN | 9780801487989 |
| Genre | Lesbian Studies |
| Publication Date | Jul-02 |
| Publisher | Cornell University Press |
| Format | Trade Paperback |
| No. of Pages | 242 |
| Language | English |
| Rating | NotRated |
| Subject | English Fiction; English Fiction/ History And Criticism; Homosexuality And Literature/ Great Britain/ History; Lesbians in literature |
| BookID | 5937 |
