Literary Theory and Methodology Session Three: Gay, Lesbian, and Queer Theories.

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Literary Theory and Methodology Session Three: Gay, Lesbian, and Queer Theories

Agenda Revisiting Postcolonialist Theories Gay, Lesbian, and Queer Theories Jeanette Winterson, ”The 24-Hour Dog”

Revisiting Postcolonialist Theories Ethnocentrism (Centre – margin: Western – non-Western. Subject positions) The subaltern (the colonized non-elite: How can the subaltern speak?) Mimicry, hybridity, diaspora

Gay, Lesbian, and Queer Theories: Key Terms Heterosexism Homophobia

Gay Theories: Key Terms Desire and Sexuality (Freud) ”normal” – ”perverse” ”heterosexuality” – ”homosexuality” ”procreative” – ”unproductive”

Gay,Theories: Key Terms Desire and Power: Foucault The homosexual – the sodomite Subject-defining identity – temporary deviation

Gay Theories: Key Terms The inscription of homosexuality in texts Reclaiming aspects of gay life from non- gay texts: Effiminacy, drag, camp, homoerotic, male bonding, homosociality

Gay Theories: Key Terms Reading D.H: Lawrence’s Women in Love:

Lesbian Feminist Theories: Key Terms Critique of compulsory heterosexuality – against the straight mind and the heterosexual matrix Woman identification Alternative women’s communities

Lesbian Feminist Theories: Key Terms Adrinne Rich’s reading of Jane Eyre Heterosexual romance plot vs. A narrative of loving female pedagogy, nurture, and education

Queer Theory and Criticism: Key Terms ”Queer is by definition whatever is at odds with the normal, the ligitimate, the dominant. There is nothing in particular to which it necessarily refers. It is an identity without an essance” David Halperin.

Queer Theory and Criticism: Key Terms Performativity (Butler) The theatrical, improvisational self

Jeanette Winterson, ”The 24-Hour Dog”: a Lesbian and / or Queer Text? Point of view Plot/ character Imagery Theme