"Reparative Craft explores acclaimed queer theorist Eve Kosofsky Sedgwicks work as a textile artist. Jason Edwards focuses on the period between 1996 and 2005, exploring Sedgwicks early patchwork experiments and weavings, as well as the public exhibitions of her work. Reparative Craft combines close readings of Sedgwicks poetry, autobiography, and literary theory, with equally close readings of her textiles. Edwards contextualizes Sedgwicks textiles in the period after her diagnosis with metastatic breast cancer and understands her textiles and collages to be a profound, reparative way of managing that experience, by becoming interested in it and understanding it as a source of potential creativity as well as a mortal threat. The book thinks about Sedgwicks love of indigo, cyanotype, kimono silk scraps, Gary Fisher, Marcel Proust, Henry James, James Merrill, and Andy Warhol, as well as of the textile techniques of patchwork, suminagashi and shibori. In so doing, Reparative Craft suggests that Sedgwicks late life Buddhist craft represent a model of how to live and die well"-- Provided by publisher.