Straight Writ Queer

Non-Normative Expressions of Heterosexuality in Literature
Herausgeber: Fantina, Richard

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The advent of gay and lesbian studies as an academic field opened the door for a new exploration of sexuality in literature. Here, works generally considered heterosexual are re-examined in the light of queer theory. The notion of homosexuality is viewed as a social construction that emerged during the 19th century, with a definitive difference between biological sex and gendered behavior. Heterosexuality is determined by whether sexual performance conforms to society-designated gender roles. From this wider perspective, this book examines literature previously viewed as ""straight"" in a search for alternative manifestations of desire and performance, relationships that contain an apparent disconnect between gender and desire. With broad coverage of many periods, authors, and genres, the 17 essays identify inherently queer heterosexual practices and critique the idea of heteronormativity, blurring the line between homo- and heterosexuality. Topics discussed include sodomy and chastity; Victorian literature; the relationship between sex, gender and desire; and the instability in literary portrayals of gender and sexuality. George Eliot, George Meredith, Ernest Hemingway, and Rider Haggard are among the many authors discussed.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: McFarland
• Seitenzahl: 276
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. September 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 452g
• ISBN-13: 9780786426386
• ISBN-10: 0786426381
• Artikelnr.: 22022960

Autorenporträt

Editor Richard Fantina is also the author of Ernest Hemingway: Machismo and Masochism and co-editor of Victorian Sensations: Essays on a Scandalous Genre. He lives in Westfield, Vermont.

Inhaltsangabe

Table of Contents
Foreword: Crossing the Streets, Queering the Sheets, or: "Do You Want to
Save the Changes to Queer Heterosexuality?"
CALVIN THOMAS     
Preface     
Introduction
RICHARD FANTINA     
Part I: Imperfect Sodomy and Queer Chastity
1. Back Door Sex: Renaissance Gynosodomy, Aretino, and the Exotic
CELIA R. DAILEADER     
2. Pegging Ernest Hemingway: Masochism, Sodomy, and the Dominant Woman
RICHARD FANTINA     
3. Queer Desire and Heterosexual Consummation in the Anchoritic Mystical
Tradition
SUSANNAH MARY CHEWNING     
4. Deviant Celibacy: Renouncing Dinah's Little Fetish in Adam Bede
KATE FABER OESTREICH     
Part II: The Victorians, of Course
5. The Mark of the Brotherhood: Homosexual Panic and the Foreign Other in
Wilkie Collins's The Woman in White
RICHARD NEMESVARI     
6. "A rod of flexible steel in that little hand": Female Dominance and Male
Masochism in Mary Elizabeth Braddon's Aurora Floyd
DENISE HUNTER GRAVATT     
7. "Was ever hero in this fashion won?" Alternative Sexualities in the
Novels of George Meredith
MELISSA SHIELDS JENKINS     
8. She: Rider Haggard's Queer Adventures
SHANNON YOUNG     
Part III: The Incommensurability of Sex/Gender/Desire
9. Strange Anatomy, Strange Sexuality: The Queer Body in Jeffrey Eugenides'
Middlesex
ZACHARY SIFUENTES     
10. Freudian Foreplay: Lesbian Failure and Freud's Desire in "The
Psychogenesis of a Case of Homosexuality in a Woman"
ASHLEY T. SHELDEN     
11. Latent Lesbians and Heterosexual Narrative: Tracing a Queer Poetics in
Fay Weldon's Fiction
LORENA RUSSELL     
12. Stepping into the Same River Twice: The Tragic Sexual Mulatto and
Subversion of the Inside/Outside Dialectic in the Novels of E. Lynn Harris
and Alice Walker
GRACE SIKORSKI     
13. "Beautiful, or thick, or right, or complicated": Queer Heterosexuality
in the Young Adult Works of Cynthia Voigt and Francesca Lia Block
DEBORAH KAPLAN and REBECCA RABINOWITZ     
Part IV: Instabilities and Wayward Subversions
14. Nom de Guerre: Homosociality in Timothy Findley's The Wars
SHELTON WALDREP     
15. Granville Barker's Effeminate Heterosexuals: The New Drama's New
ANNE STILES     
16. "The most primeval of passions": Incest in the Service of Women in
Angela Carter's The Magic Toyshop
MADELEINE MONSON-ROSEN     
17. "If thou art God, avenge thyself !" Sade and Swinburne as Christian
Atheists
CAROL POSTER     
About the Contributors     
Index