Gay and Lesbian Literature
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Transtextuality in the Male Gothic: Beckford, Lewis, Byron. Nowell Marshall, Rider University
This essay identifies a strain of male gothic writing that created a queer worldview by strategically appropriating the transgender body. I theorize transtextuality as a narrative strategy whereby authors transitioned characters from one sex to another to “safely” evoke same-sex desire in Beckford, Lewis, and Byron.
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"I Was Able to Do It!": Drug Use and New Epistemologies in Lesbian and Gay Fiction. Patrick Randolph, University of California, Riverside
This work examines how drug use in recent Gay and Lesbian fiction critiques heteronormative-centric values of productivity and sanctioned pleasures, along with stable notions of identity, time, and space. Physical and mental transitioning is also scrutinized through questions of accessibility.
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Cursing the Queer Family: Shakespeare, Psychoanalysis, and My Own Private Idaho. Sharon O'Dair, University of Alabama
My Own Private Idaho fails to collapse the distinction between legitimate and illegitimate kinship, and thus begs the question about family, home, and the queer subject—why is the film’s protagonist on the street? This paper offers an answer.
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