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

2. Agenda Identity (Revisiting Postcolonialist Theories) Gay, Lesbian, and Queer Theories Victor J. Banis, "The Emerald Mounitain" Jeanette Winterson, ”The 24-Hour Dog”

3. Identity Class Gender Ethnicity Sexuality [Smoking Eating Driving] Essentialism vs anti- essentialism and constructivism

4. 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

5. Gay, Lesbian, and Queer Theories: Key Terms Heterosexism: the social organisation and privileging of heterosexuality, marginalising and suppressing homosexuality Homophobia: the irrational fear and loathing of same-sex love

6. Gay Theories: Key Terms Desire and Sexuality as fundamentally amorphous, shapeless, and unstructured (Freud)

7. Gay Theories: Key Terms Desire and Sexuality as fundamentally amorphous, shapeless, and unstructured (Freud) Collapse of: ”normal” – ”perverse” ”heterosexuality” – ”homosexuality” ”procreative” – ”unproductive”

8. Gay,Theories: Key Terms Desire and Power has a history: Foucault The 19th century as a turning point The sodomite → the homosexual Temporary deviation → subject-defining identity

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

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

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

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

13. Gay, Lesbian and / or Queer Texts? Victor J. Banis, "The Emerald Mounitain“ Jeanette Winterson, ”The 24-Hour Dog”