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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"Queer literature"”.
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To Soar Above the Apple Grove: Stories
… but all take the typical ‘tragic’ stereotype of queer fiction and prove that everyone deserves a chance at love. All three pieces also contain elements of magic, ranging from the black magic associated with the witches of Salem to the whimsical magic of fairy tales. First love is a time of …
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Queering the Black Country: a critical and creative response
… the post-industrial liminality of the region and queer identity or experience; and, in what ways might a close analysis of contemporary Black Country fiction function as an enabling or energising factor in the production of a new creative work about the region? Using Environmental Psychology and …
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Queer, Cannibal, Brazilian: The Temporal Politics of Sexuality in Brazilian Cultural Production
The dissertation intervenes in queer and Brazilian studies by reframing sexual narratives of Brazil’s modern subject formation through contemporary queer cultural productions. It argues that the colonial employment of temporal terms such as origin, progress, development, and copy established …
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Queer American expatriate writers in France and the birth of the gay modernist subject
… critical history of forgotten or neglected queer American writers in the international expatriate community in France who used their time in the French mainland and colonies to construct early narratives of gay identity. This project argues that French literature and art, which had already …
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Escaping the Chicano Patriarchy: Chicana and Queer Chican@ Identity Struggles in the Chican@ Novel and in America
While efforts have been made to include Chican@ literature into the North American canon, works by Chicanas and queer Chican@s remain underrepresented. Meanwhile, Chicanas and queer Chican@s themselves still face racial, gender-based, and sexual oppression from dominant, hegemonic American social …
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Queer (Dis)locations: Klaus Mann's Early Works and Weimar Homosexual Culture (1919-1933)
… of non-normative ways of being, informed by queer desire, in the early works of German writer Klaus Mann (1906–1949), written during the Weimar Republic (1919–1933). Specifically, I read Mann against the backdrop of Weimar homosexual culture and its debates around homosexual emancipation, …
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“No One to Show Us the Way:” Assessing the Contemporary Relevance of the Gay Male Bildungsroman
… While nested under the umbrella category of the queer bildungsroman (and, more broadly, the bildungsroman), the gay male iteration particularly explores integrational challenges related to the extant tensions between hegemonic masculinity and the male protagonist’s sexuality and gender identity. …
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Don't Say Gay: Love Language in Coriolanus
… end. These heroes are not generally considered queer as no free Roman male could allow himself, per social indoctrination instilled since youth, to take on a submissive role. However, Caius Martius and the relationship he maintains with Tullus Aufidius could arguably be seen as homoerotic or …
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Love is a series of vaultings
… transformation by resacralizing the speaker's queer body and metabolizing the violence of white, evangelical Christianity toward a more ethical, ecological ritual consciousness. The writing is hybrid in medium and genre, which speaks to its attempts to defamiliarize easy boundaries of time and …
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Queer Genealogies in Transnational Barcelona Maria-Mercè Marçal, Cristina Peri Rossi, and Flavia Company
How do queer texts engage traditional perceptions of family, nation, and the literary canon? How do readers and writers connect with their predecessors? Natasha Tanna explores lesbian and queer desire through three authors based in Barcelona, a key locus of queer cultural production. Her analysis …