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

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

3. 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

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

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

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

7. 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

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

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

10. 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

11. 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.

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

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