Dissertations / Theses: 'Homosexuality in literature'

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Sulcer, Robert Phillips. "Ten percent : poetry, pathology, and literary study at the fin de siècle /." Digital version, 1997. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/utexas/fullcit?p9822716.

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Cole, Merrill. "The other Orpheus : a poetics of modern homosexuality /." New York [u.a.] : Routledge, 2003. http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip042/2003007030.html.

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West, Christopher L. "Limp wrists and laser guns : male homosexuality and science fiction." Thesis, University of Sussex, 2000. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.324195.

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Martland, Arthur. "Fratribus : homosexuality and creativity in the fiction of E M Forster." Thesis, University of Hull, 1995. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.318303.

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Zimmerman, Nicole M. "Self-concept, resiliency, and identity factors among gay and lesbian individuals a review and critique of the literature /." Online version, 2000. http://www.uwstout.edu/lib/thesis/2000/2000zimmermann.pdf.

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Thompson, Graham William. "Surveillance and male sexuality : the rhetoric of the office in American literature." Thesis, Nottingham Trent University, 2000. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.310851.

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李慧心 and Wai-sum Amy Lee. "Reflected selves: representations of male homosexuality in Wilde, Gide, Genet and White." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 1995. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31212505.

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Poirier, Guy. "Sodomicques et bougerons : imagologie homosexuelle à la renaissance." Thesis, McGill University, 1990. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=74680.

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Sodomy and buggery are two elements of the wide historical and literary problematic of the Gay Past. During the French Renaissance, many images were closely related to unnatural vices: hermaphroditism, representation of the foreigner, effeminacy, and so on. In order to avoid anachronical statements, our study will be preceded by an historical and methodological essay that will bring us to a literary concept, l'imagologie.
In many ways, religious reforms in the last decades of the Sixteenth Century added to the complexity of the image of the sodomite. We know that the Holy Bible and religious writings put a stigma on such practices. But the hermaphrodite, the mignon, and some motifs from Antiquity were also known or discovered, transformed or travestied.
Finally, the image of the sodomite built up in French Renaissance literature is neither similar to today's Gay person, nor to an oversimplified figure of a medieval sinner. Its organization and meaning will depend mostly on the type of work in which it appears. Moreover, Italian and North-African epistemologies, and polemics using effeminacy or mollities set-ups add to the complexity of the discursive structure.

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Willis, Craig Allen. "Step, ball, change? : a queer historical analysis of recent commercial theatre /." view abstract or download file of text, 2003. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/uoregon/fullcit?p3080600.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Oregon, 2003.
Typescript. Includes vita and abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 261-271). Also available for download via the World Wide Web; free to University of Oregon users.

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Cheatle, Joseph. "BETWEEN WILDE AND STONEWALL: REPRESENTATIONS OF HOMOSEXUALITY IN TWENTIETH-CENTURY BRITISH AND AMERICAN LITERATURE." Miami University / OhioLINK, 2014. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1406501605.

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Facco, Lúcia. "Era uma vez um casal diferente: a temática homossexual na educação literária infanto-juvenil." Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, 2008. http://www.bdtd.uerj.br/tde_busca/arquivo.php?codArquivo=4341.

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Nesta tese discuto até que ponto a educação literária de crianças e adolescentes pode ajudar a diminuir os diversos tipos de preconceito e discriminação em relação aos variados estigmas sociais, que marcam determinados indivíduos como diferentes. Faço um recorte específico na questão da orientação sexual, pois considero que a mesma é especialmente delicada, por uma série de especificidades. O sexo sempre foi um aspecto privilegiado na questão do controle social. A manutenção do sexo dentro do que a sociedade considera como normalidade (heterossexualidade) garante o status quo do qual a mesma não deseja abrir mão. Demonstro que, pelo motivo citado, a escola, que é responsável por uma parte importante da formação de crianças e jovens, prefere manter-se indiferente diante de tal questão, contribuindo, assim, para a manutenção de todos os preconceitos. Discuto ainda as infinitas possibilidades que o ensino da literatura apresenta para tal discussão, concluindo que tal ensino não apenas pode como deve ser aproveitado para ajudar no processo de formação de seres críticos, pensantes e, principalmente, solidários
This thesis examines to what extent childrens and adolescents literary education can contribute to reduce the various kinds of prejudice and discrimination towards several social stigmas, which label certain individuals as different. The study focuses on the childrens sexual orientation as I consider it to be especially sensitive due to its peculiarities. Sex has always been a privileged category for social control. The maintenance of the concept of normal sex (heterosexuality), reinforces the status quo, which society is unwilling to renounce. For this same reason, schools, which play an important role in childrens and adolescents upbringing, assume a position of indifference to the matter, which contributes to the maintenance of all prejudices. This study also shows the numerous contributions that the teaching of literature can bring to the discussion. Literature at school can and should be used to help the development of critical, mindful and, above all, supportive human beings

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Sidhe, Wren. "Bodies, books and the bucolic : Englishness, literature and sexuality, 1918-1939." Thesis, University of Gloucestershire, 2001. http://eprints.glos.ac.uk/3380/.

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The hypothesis this thesis tests is that interwar hegemonic discourses of Englishness located it as originating in the heterosexual bond between a masculine national subject and a feminine nature/landscape. Discursively, this left little space for women to insert themselves in to such a cultural formation. However, a paradox of this heterosexualising cultural matrix may have been to give a voice to lesbian subjectivity, since If 'women' might not be English, could lesbians be? If national land was figured as feminine, and women desired identification with their country-as-land, to become English might mean for some women that they should become lesbian. In order to explore this, three main questions are examined. Firstly, to what extent did the dominant discourse of the rural in the interwar period define 'Englishness' as masculine and 'Nature' as feminine? Secondly, if women were excluded from this discursive heterosexual relationship, can it be seen paradoxically to have opened up a space for alternative sexualities to emerge? If lesbianism were an instance of the latter, then what writing strategies were adopted in order to articulate a relationship between Englishness and lesbianism? Thirdly, what can censored and other literary texts of the period reveal about the relations between such an English masculine national subject, the meaning and powers attributed to literature, and forbidden sexualities and subjectivities? In its analysis of the relationship between national identity, geographical location and sexuality, this thesis contributes to studies of England and Englishness through the addition of the concept of 'sexuality' to an understanding of their construction. It also contributes to lesbian and gay critical theory by examining the national processes which impinge of the construction of the homosexual subject. Beyond that, the importance of the materiality of the locations offered to different subjectivities shows how national identifies are both enabled and limited by these same locations.

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Ross, Oliver Paul. "Same-sex desire and syncretism : 'homosexualities' in Indian literature and film." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2011. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.609810.

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Roy, Matthew M. "August Strindberg's perversions : on the science, sin and scandal of homosexuality in August Strindberg's works /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/6582.

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Linné, Robert Andrew. "Alternative reading lists : personal literacy histories of gays and lesbians /." Digital version accessible at:, 1998. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/utexas/main.

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Ncube, Gibson. "Constructions et representations litteraires de la sexualite « marginale » sur les deux rives de la Mediterranee : Rachid O., Eyet-Chekib Djaziri, Abdellah Taia et Ilmann Bel." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/95962.

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Thesis (PhD)--Stellenbosch University, 2014.
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: “Marginal” sexualities continue to be veiled by a cloud of silence and taboo in the Arab-Muslim societies. This study puts into conversation literary narratives by four writers of Maghrebian descent who have dared to break the intolerably irksome silence surrounding homosexuality. The novels of Rachid O., Abdellah Taïa, Eyet-Chékib Djaziri and Ilmann Bel are synchronous with the growing interest in the potential common points between literary production and queer sexualities in the Maghreb (and indeed other Arab/Muslim regions). Drawing on hermeneutic perspectives as well as diverse readings in gender and queer studies, this literary analysis deconstructs the problematic figure of the homosexual which is at once contentious as well as the locus of manifold discourses that are concerned with questioning the status quo whilst unveiling the unutterable. The literary construction and representation of “marginal” sexuality certainly plays a pivotal role in destabilising and challenging the simplistic conceptions of identity and value systems that underlie the designations of “correct and incorrect” sexual orientations and identities. Elaborating a comprehensive interpretative paradigm, this study attempts to fill the yawning gap in scholarship on the relationship between francophone literary production from the Maghreb and homosexuality. Adopting a tri-sequential approach, the study begins with an explanatory phase which contextualises queer sexuality as well as queer literary studies in the Maghreb and in France. An encounter phase follows offering a hermeneutic reading of the selected novels of the four writers, concentrating particularly on the definition, characterisation and general tonality of the literary works. The ultimate stage, the interpretive/theorisation phase, encompasses a re-reading of primary and secondary texts alongside each other so as to construct an original appraisal of the novels as well as develop a theoretically sound consideration of the construction of “marginal” sexualities in the selected novels. In addition to the above-enumerated tri-sequential approach, the argumentative flow of the study equally follows a three-pronged progression: production-text-reception. The first phase scrutinises the sociocultural, political and historical context in which the literary texts under consideration are created. The “text” phase analyses the novels in question in order to elaborate a theorisation of the construction and representation of “marginal” sexuality in the autofictional works of the aforementioned writers. The “reception” phase goes beyond the purely textual and delves into the possible impact of these literary texts on the everyday world of Arab-Muslim societies, in France as in the Maghreb.
AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: “Marginale” seksualiteite word steeds gehul in ŉ wolk van stilte en taboe in die Arabiese Moslemgemeenskappe. Hierdie studie ondersoek literêre narratiewe van vier skrywers van hierde streek wat dit gewaag het om die swaar en onuitstaanbaar hinderlike stilte rondom homoseksualiteit te verbreek. Die romans van Rachid O., Abdellah Taïa, Eyet-Chékib Djaziri en Ilmann Bel verskyn wanneer daar toenemende belangstelling ontstaan in uiteenlopende aspekte van en potensieel gemeenskaplike eienskappe tussen literêre produksie en sogenaamde “queer” seksualiteite in die Magreb (en ook ander Arabiese/Moslemstreke). Hierdie literêre analise, wat gebruik maak van hermeneutiese perspektiewe asook diverse gender- en queerstudies, dekonstrueer die problematiese figuur van die homoseksueel wat terselfdertyd omstrede én die lokus is van menigvuldige diskoerse wat gaan oor die bevraagtekening van die status quo terwyl die onuitspreeklike openbaar gemaak word. Die literêre konstruksie en uitbeelding van “marginale” seksualiteit speel beslis ŉ belangrike rol in die destabilisering en uitdaging van die simplistiese voorstellings van identiteit en waardesisteme wat onder die benaming van regte en verkeerde seksuele oriëntasies en identiteite lê. Deur ŉ omvattende interpretatiewe paradigma te ontwikkel, probeer hierdie studie om die gaping te vul wat in die wetenskap bestaan ten opsigte van die verhouding tussen Frankofoon literêre produksie uit die Magreb en homoseksualiteit. Die benadering bestaan uit drie opeenvolgende dele. Die studie begin met ŉ verklarende fase wat queer seksualiteit, asook queer literêre studies in die Magreb en Frankryk kontekstualiseer. ŉ Ontmoetingsfase volg waarin ŉ hermeneutiese lees van die gekose romans van die vier skrywers aangebied word, wat spesifiek op die definisie, karakterisering en algemene tonaliteit van die literêre werke fokus. Die finale fase, die interpretatiewe/teoretiseringsfase, sluit ŉ parallelle herlees van primêre en sekondêre tekste in om sodoende ŉ oorspronklike waardering van die romans te konstrueer en om ook ŉ teoreties onaanvegbare oorweging van die konstruksie van “marginale” seksualiteite in die gekose romans te ontwikkel. Verder volg die argument van die studie ook ŉ drieledige progressie: produksie-teks-ontvangs. Die eerste fase ondersoek die sosiokulturele, politiese en historiese konteks waarbinne die gekose tekste geskep is. Die “teksfase” analiseer die gekose romans om ŉ teoretisering van die konstruksie en representasie van “marginale” seksualiteit in die outofiksionele werke van die vier skrywers te ontwikkel. Die laaste fase gaan verder as die teks self en ondersoek die moontlike impak van hierdie literêre werke op die alledaagse wêreld van Arabiese Moslemgemeenskappe, in Frankryk sowel as die Magreb.
SOMMAIRE: La sexualité « marginale » demeure un sujet indicible et tabou dans les sociétés arabo-musulmanes, au Maghreb comme en France. La présente thèse essaie de mettre en conversation les récits de quatre romanciers d’origine maghrébine qui ont osé rompre l’intolérable silence { propos de l’homosexualité. Les romans de Rachid O., d’Abdellah Taïa, d’Eyet-Chékib Djaziri et d’Ilmann Bel sont synchrones avec l’intérêt croissant pour de divers aspects des sexualités « marginales » au Maghreb (et certes dans d’autres régions arabo-musulmanes). Nous servant des perspectives herméneutiques ainsi que de diverses théories des études de genre et des études queer, nous proposons dans cette étude une déconstruction du personnage de l’homosexuel qui est { la fois contentieux et également le locus de nombreux discours concernant la remise en cause du statu quo et le dévoilement de l’indicible. La construction et la représentation littéraire de la sexualité « marginale » joue certes un rôle central dans la déstabilisation des conceptions simplistes de la politique identitaire tout en mettant en cause les systèmes de valeurs qui sont à la base des désignations des identités et des orientations sexuelles. Élaborant un paradigme interprétatif compréhensif, cette étude s’efforcera de combler la lacune qui existe par rapport { l’analyse de l’intersection entre la production littéraire au Maghreb francophone et la sexualité « marginale ». Nous adoptons dans cette étude une approche tri-séquentielle et l’étape initiale, nommée la phase explicative, met en contexte la sexualité queer ainsi que les études littéraires traitant de ce sujet sur les deux rives de la Méditerranée. Cette phase préliminaire est suivie d’une phase de rencontre qui proposera une lecture herméneutique des romans, portant sur la définition, la caractérisation et la tonalité de ces oeuvres littéraires. Il s’agit dans l’étape ultime, la phase interprétative/de théorisation, d’une lecture parallèle des oeuvres primaires et secondaires afin d’établir une appréciation des romans de nos auteurs ainsi que de développer une considération valable sur le plan de la théorie de la construction et représentation de la sexualité « marginale » dans les romans choisis. En plus de l’approche ci-dessus expliquée, l’écoulement argumentatif de cette étude suit également une triple séquence : production-texte-réception. La phase de « production » examine le contexte socioculturel, politique et historique où se créent les textes littéraires sous considération. La phase de « texte » concentre sur l’analyse des oeuvres romanesques afin d’élaborer une problématisation de la sexualité « marginale ». La phase de « réception » dépasse les textes et analyse l’effet de ces textes sur le monde du quotidien des milieux arabo-musulmans, en France comme au Maghreb.

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Dobbins, Jeffrey. "Becoming imaginable : Japanese gay male identity as mediated through popular culture." Thesis, McGill University, 2000. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=33279.

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This thesis will examine how gay men are depicted in mainstream Japanese pop culture. To be discussed are: gay-themed comics for girls, mainstream movies in which the protagonists are gay, and finally, gay men's magazines which are gay authored and consumed. In examining how fantasies in these texts respond to the needs of various readerships, it is possible to understand how important and challenging it is for gay Japanese men to create identities of their own, identities which will allow them more possibilities than the prevailing facade of compulsory heterosexuality, complete with marriage and children.

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Cheung, Yuk-ting, and 張旭廷. "The glocal queer in Singaporean gay writing." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2011. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B46701114.

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Lee, Wai-sum Amy. "Reflected selves : representations of male homosexuality in Wilde, Gide, Genet and White /." Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong, 1995. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B17092486.

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Scanlon, Joan B. "Bending the rule : some representations of male and female homosexuality in English narrative prose from c. 1880 to 1930." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 1987. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.278434.

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Lee, Amy Wai Sum. "Reflected selves representations of male homosexuality in Wilde, Gide, Genet, and White /." Connect to this title online, 1995. http://sunzi1.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record/B31212505.

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Marks, Maria Cecilia. "A voz das vozes: uma leitura bakhtiniana de Grande Sertão: Veredas." Universidade de São Paulo, 2017. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/8/8151/tde-26062018-101804/.

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O objetivo deste estudo é analisar o romance Grande sertão: veredas, de João Guimarães Rosa, a partir de conceitos elaborados por Mikhail Bakhtin. Este desenvolveu a concepção de romance polifônico em sua interpretação da obra de Fiódor Dostoiévski, desvendando o procedimento do escritor de incluir em sua prosa ficcional a multiplicidade de vozes presentes na sociedade. Trata-se do fenômeno do dialogismo, em que diferentes discursos entram em interação, se manifestam em réplicas diretas ou veladas, reagem entre si, estabelecem consonâncias ou dissonâncias, transformando-se continuamente, sendo que o autor aparece como uma entre as muitas vozes da narrativa. Nesse sentido, apesar de haver apenas uma voz em enunciação, consideramos Grande sertão: veredas um romance polifônico e interpretamos trechos em que o dialogismo é patente. Em seu estudo sobre François Rabelais, Bakhtin introduziu o conceito de carnavalização da literatura, processo por meio do qual foram incorporadas manifestações da cultura popular na linguagem literária. Bakhtin vale-se ainda da noção de grotesco, estilo antigo caracterizado pela mistura de formas. Tanto em Rabelais como em Guimarães Rosa, a linguagem está radicada na oralidade e em expressões populares, ainda que amalgamada a um vasto conhecimento erudito. Desse prisma, analisamos duas novelas (O recado do morro e Meu tio o Iauaretê) e um conto (Darandina) de Guimarães Rosa, além do romance Grande sertão: veredas. Seguindo uma linha de pensamento alinhada às ideias de Bakhtin que encontram ressonância em Guimarães Rosa, nas quais as fronteiras são indistintas e a transformação é inerente ao movimento da vida, procuramos centrar a análise na superação da lógica binária moderna, dando um salto para o polissêmico. É dessa maneira que propomos uma atualização da visão sobre a relação amorosa em Grande sertão: veredas, com o apoio teórico de Michel Foucault.
The objective of this study is to analyze the novel Grande sertão: veredas, by João Guimarães Rosa, based on Mikhail Bakhtins concepts. Bakhtin developed a conception of the polyphonic novel in his interpretation of Fyodor Dostoevsky\'s work, in which he describes the writers procedure that includes, in his fictional prose, the multiplicity of social voices found in society. This is the phenomenon of dialogism, in which different dialogues interact, manifest themselves in direct or veiled responses, react among themselves, establishing consonances or dissonances, transforming themselves continuously, with the author appearing as one among the many voices of the narrative. In this regard, although there is only one voice in enunciation, we consider Grande sertão: veredas to be a polyphonic novel and analyze extracts in which the dialogism is distinct. In his study of Francois Rabelais, Bakhtin introduced the concept of the carnivalization of literature, a process in which the manifestations of popular culture were incorporated into literary language. Bakhtin also employs the notion of grotesque, an ancient style characterized by a mixture of forms. In both the Rabelais and Guimarães Rosa works the language is rooted in orality and popular expressions, even though it is melded with a vast erudite knowledge. From this point of view, we analyze two novels (O recado do morro and Meu tio o Iauaretê) and a tale (\"Darandina\") by Guimarães Rosa, besides the novel Grande sertão: veredas. Following a line of thought concurrent with Bakhtins ideas, and also consonant in Guimarães Rosa, where boundaries are indistinct and transformation is inherent in lifes movement, we aim to focus the analysis on the overcoming of modern binary logic, thereby taking a leap to the polysemic. It is in this manner we propose an updated interpretation of the love affair in Grande sertão: veredas, with the theoretical support of Michel Foucault.

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PRICKETT, DAVID JAMES. "BODY CRISIS, IDENTITY CRISIS: HOMOSEXUALITY AND AESTHETICS IN WILHELMINE- AND WEIMAR GERMANY." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2003. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1053700766.

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Busch, Rebecca. "An analysis of research and literature on school climate experiences of gay and lesbian youth." Menomonie, WI : University of Wisconsin--Stout, 2006. http://www.uwstout.edu/lib/thesis/2006/2006buschr.pdf.

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Birrell, Susan Lee. "Incorporating "gay friendly" literature into your current first grade literature-based reading program." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 1993. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/677.

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Blain, Jenny. "Deconstructing Martin Boyd : homosocial desire and the transgressive aesthetic." Thesis, The University of Sydney, 1998. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/2760.

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Following on the proposition that the history of Western thought is importantly constituted by a discourse of male-male pedagogic or pederastic relations stretching in narrative form, according to Allan Bloom, from the Phaedrus to Death in Venice, the deconstructive project of reading 'against the visible grain' has been mobilised in the interests of interrogating and unsettling what can only be defined as homophobic misreadings of Martin Boyd. Critical discursive practice, by the near-uniform imposition of a tacit censorship, has refused by means of erasure, silence and repression to reflect on Boyd from the perspective of sexual definition or same-sex love and desire, presumably in the belief that there are no interpretive consequences. In the process, an hypothesis of Boyd as himself mounting an act of social criticism by surreptitiously contesting conventional and hierarchical typologies of masculinity in the margins of institutionalised and popular hegemonic culture, seems to have escaped inscription in the canonical records. Martin Boyd's 'dividedness', 'doubleness', ambivalences and dichotomies point to a complexity that is not ultimately or ontologically resolvable. The Derridean 'de-sedimentation' modus operandi used here makes no claim to a relevatory hermeneutics of Hegelian essence. It does, however, utilise the various tropes of ambivalence, uncertainty, anxiety and incoherence — aspects of Boyd which may be correlated, perhaps, with his sense of the unheimlich or not being at home with himself or his environment — to reposition him in terms of his psychosexual constitution. In the process, the advocacy of aestheticism and pleasure for which he is recognised is found to be tempered and/or subverted by an overt recourse to the transgressive and 'decadent', elements irretrievably linked to his fetishization of the beautiful male body and his obsessive redeployment of the Hellenic ideal of manly love. The interpretive frameworks applied in the reclamation of the 'different' sensibility Boyd articulates by means of an alternately subtilized and strenuous challenge to sex/gender identity and behavioural norms encompass a field ranging from late nineteenth century theoretical discourse on homosexuality through to the intertextual influences of cultural innovators like Pater and Wilde. It includes reference to the literary strategies devised by Sedgwick to uncover deviance and 'erotic pathways'; it surveys the psychoanalytic hypotheses of Freud and Adler as relevant; and it pays heed to an aesthetics of the religio-erotic.

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Blain, Jenny. "Deconstructing Martin Boyd : homosocial desire and the transgressive aesthetic." University of Sydney, 1998. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/2760.

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Doctor of Philosophy
Following on the proposition that the history of Western thought is importantly constituted by a discourse of male-male pedagogic or pederastic relations stretching in narrative form, according to Allan Bloom, from the Phaedrus to Death in Venice, the deconstructive project of reading 'against the visible grain' has been mobilised in the interests of interrogating and unsettling what can only be defined as homophobic misreadings of Martin Boyd. Critical discursive practice, by the near-uniform imposition of a tacit censorship, has refused by means of erasure, silence and repression to reflect on Boyd from the perspective of sexual definition or same-sex love and desire, presumably in the belief that there are no interpretive consequences. In the process, an hypothesis of Boyd as himself mounting an act of social criticism by surreptitiously contesting conventional and hierarchical typologies of masculinity in the margins of institutionalised and popular hegemonic culture, seems to have escaped inscription in the canonical records. Martin Boyd's 'dividedness', 'doubleness', ambivalences and dichotomies point to a complexity that is not ultimately or ontologically resolvable. The Derridean 'de-sedimentation' modus operandi used here makes no claim to a relevatory hermeneutics of Hegelian essence. It does, however, utilise the various tropes of ambivalence, uncertainty, anxiety and incoherence — aspects of Boyd which may be correlated, perhaps, with his sense of the unheimlich or not being at home with himself or his environment — to reposition him in terms of his psychosexual constitution. In the process, the advocacy of aestheticism and pleasure for which he is recognised is found to be tempered and/or subverted by an overt recourse to the transgressive and 'decadent', elements irretrievably linked to his fetishization of the beautiful male body and his obsessive redeployment of the Hellenic ideal of manly love. The interpretive frameworks applied in the reclamation of the 'different' sensibility Boyd articulates by means of an alternately subtilized and strenuous challenge to sex/gender identity and behavioural norms encompass a field ranging from late nineteenth century theoretical discourse on homosexuality through to the intertextual influences of cultural innovators like Pater and Wilde. It includes reference to the literary strategies devised by Sedgwick to uncover deviance and 'erotic pathways'; it surveys the psychoanalytic hypotheses of Freud and Adler as relevant; and it pays heed to an aesthetics of the religio-erotic.

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Favotto, Gianmarco <1994&gt. "The Beginning of Queer Literature: The Representation of Homosexuality in Radclyffe Hall's The Well of Loneliness and Forster's Maurice." Master's Degree Thesis, Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/10579/14268.

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The focus of this study is the representation of homosexuality in the English literature of the first decades of the twentieth century. After an overview of the social and scientific background, the works of E. M. Forster and Radclyffe Hall are considered. The choice falls on Maurice and The Well of Loneliness since they can be classified as the first gay and lesbian modern novel respectively. The analysis will firstly focus on how much of the authors’ own biographies can be recognized in the texts. Secondly, the differences and congruencies between the characters in the novels and the official representation of homosexuality are highlighted. Finally, the authors’ attitudes and ideas about the situation of the homosexual community are compared in an attempt to better understand the climate they experienced and the aim of the novels.

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Jones, Caroline E. Tarr C. Anita. "Female sexuality in young adult literature." Normal, Ill. : Illinois State University, 2006. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?index=0&did=1225117161&SrchMode=1&sid=4&Fmt=2&VInst=PROD&VType=PQD&RQT=309&VName=PQD&TS=1177689304&clientId=43838.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Illinois State University, 2006.
Title from title page screen, viewed on April 27, 2007. Dissertation Committee: C. Anita Tarr (chair), Roberta Seelinger Trites, Jan Christopher Susina. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 197-208) and abstract. Also available in print.

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Waters, Sarah Ann. "Wolfskins and togas lesbian and gay historical fictions, 1870 to the present /." Thesis, Online version, 1995. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?did=1&uin=uk.bl.ethos.393332.

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Lesk, Andrew. "The play of desire Sinclair Ross's gay fiction /." Ottawa : National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2000. http://www.nlc-bnc.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk3/ftp04/NQ60597.pdf.

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Ashman, Adrian F. "Unfinished business." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 1999.

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Rutter-Jensen, Chloe. "Drugs, revolution, and sports : narrating the erotic other in recent Colombian fiction /." Diss., Connect to a 24 p. preview or request complete full text in PDF format. Access restricted to UC campuses, 2002. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/ucsd/fullcit?p3064475.

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Hoffman, Warren D. "Gay-valt : queer performance and identity in twentieth-century Jewish American literature, theater, and film /." Diss., Digital Dissertations Database. Restricted to UC campuses, 2004. http://wwwlib.umi.com/dissertations/fullcit/3135065.

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Danker, Adrian Augustus. "Turn of the gaze : toward a (re)vision of reading masculinity /." Title page, contents and abstract only, 1994. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09PH/09phd187.pdf.

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Nilsson, Lindberg Sebastian. "Att skriva, skriva om och skriva om sig själv : En komparativ undersökning av Inger Edelfeldts och Bengt Martins omarbetade berättelser om homosexualitet." Thesis, Södertörns högskola, Institutionen för genus, kultur och historia, 2011. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-15291.

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Inger Edelfeldt (1956) and Bengt Martin (1933-2010) are two Swedish writers of different generations. Both of them did, between the years 1968 to 1983, write about adolescent men coming to terms with their homosexuality. Edelfeldt wrote two versions of the same story, with slight but significant differences, the main being different implied readers (adult versus adolescent). Bengt Martin wrote about three young homosexual characters: Joakim, Bengt and Bengt. The story about Joakim is presented as fiction but bears many resemblances with Martin’s autobiography. The story about Bengt, the only one of these stories meant for an adolescent implied reader, is seemingly presented as autobiographical but bears only slight resemblances to the Bengt brought forth in the autobiography Jag ångrar ingenting (“I don’t regret anything”). My purpose is to analyze how and why Edelfeldt and Martin re-wrote these stories. In what ways do the rewritings change the story about how it is to be young and homosexual? My result shows that a story about homosexuality differs due to the time it was written and that Martin and Edelfeldt wrote about this subject in a transit period between the focus on societal discrimination and the need to show a possible happy life. The wish to show society that homosexual individuals are unfairly treated conflicts with the need to give hope to young homosexual people. The word young is important in this context, as the adolescent implied reader (in Bengt Martin’s youth books about Bengt and the second version of Edelfeldt’s novel) makes the story more hopeful and less problematized. The analyzed books show the importance of seeing sexual identity as a construction. Martin and Edelfeldt are products of their time and society, but also actors in the re-shaping of homosexual identity.

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Vestal, Paul D. "Remember gay victims an exploration into the history, testimony, and literature of the persecution of homosexuals by the Third Reich and their effect on a queer collective consciousness /." Diss., [Missoula, Mont.] : The University of Montana, 2009. http://etd.lib.umt.edu/theses/available/etd-05142008-150238/.

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Cohens, Derrick D. "Blurring boundaries, embracing chaos: the politics of race and sexaulity [sic] in the works of James Baldwin /." Laramie, Wyo. : University of Wyoming, 2008. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1594497601&sid=1&Fmt=2&clientId=18949&RQT=309&VName=PQD.

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Walker, Rosanna West. "Lock-out time in the gardens of desire : absence, refusal, and silence in J. M. Barrie's Peter Pan stories /." view abstract or download file of text, 2005. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/uoregon/fullcit?p3190554.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Oregon, 2005.
Typescript. Includes vita and abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 196-202). Also available for download via the World Wide Web; free to University of Oregon users.

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Barrett, Redfern Jon. "Queer friendship : same sex love in the works of Thomas Gray, Anna Seward, Mary Wollstonecraft and William Godwin." Thesis, Swansea University, 2010. https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa43030.

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Burke, Christopher J. F. "Diversity or Perversity? Investigating Queer Narratives, Resistance, and Representation in Aotearoa / New Zealand, 1948-2000." The University of Waikato, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10289/2245.

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This thesis contributes to the burgeoning field of the history of sexuality in New Zealand and seeks to distill the more theorised and reflexive understanding of the subjectively understood queer male identity since 1948. Emerging from the disciplines of History and English, this project draws from a range of narratological materials: parliamentary debates contained in Hansard, and novels and short stories written by men with publicly avowed queer identities. This thesis explores how both 'normative' identity and the category of 'the homosexual' were constructed and mobilised in the public domain, in this case, the House of Representatives. It shows that members of the House have engaged with an extensive tradition of defining and excluding; a process by which state and public discourses have constructed largely unified, negative and othering narratives of 'the homosexual'. This constitutes an overarching narrative of queer experience which, until the mid-1990s, excluded queer subjects from its construction. At the same time, fictional narratives offer an adjacent body of knowledge and thought for queer men and women. This thesis posits literature's position as an important and productive space for queer resistance and critique. Such texts typically engage with and subvert 'dominant' or 'normative' understandings of sexuality and disturb efforts to apprehend precise or linear histories of 'gay liberation' and 'gay consciousness'. Drawing from the works of Frank Sargeson, James Courage, Bill Pearson, Noel Virtue, Stevan Eldred-Grigg, and Peter Wells, this thesis argues for a revaluing of fictional narratives as active texts from which historians can construct a matrix of cultural experience, while allowing for, and explaining, the determining role such narratives play in the discursively constructed understandings of gender and sexuality in New Zealand.

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Jerome, Collin. "Queer Melayu : queer sexualities and the politics of Malay identity and nationalism in contemporary Malaysian literature and culture." Thesis, University of Sussex, 2012. http://sro.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/39644/.

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This thesis examines Malay identity construction by focusing on the complex processes of self-identification among queer-identified Malays living in Malaysia and beyond. By analysing representations of queer Malays in the works of contemporary Malaysian Malay writers, scholars, and filmmakers, as well as queer Malays on the internet and in the diaspora, the thesis demonstrates how self-identifying gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgendered Malays create and express their identities, and the ways in which hegemonic Malay culture, religion, and the state affect their creation and expression. This is especially true when queer-identified Malays are officially conflated with being “un-Malay” and “un-Islamic” because queer sexualities contravene Malay cultural and religious values. This thesis begins by discussing the politics of Malay identity, particularly the tension between “authority-defined” and “everyday-defined” notions of being Malay that opens up a space for queer-identified Malays to formulate narratives of Malayness marked by sexual difference. The thesis then discusses how queer-identified Malays specifically construct their identities via various strategies, including strategic renegotiations of ethnicity, religiosity, and queer sexuality, and selective reappropriations of local and western forms of queerness. The ways in which “gay Melayu” identity is a hybrid cultural construction, produced through transnational and transcultural interactions between local and western forms of gayness under current conditions of globalization is also examined, as well as the material articulation of queer narratives of Malayness and its diverse implications on queer-identified Malays' everyday lives and sense of belonging. The thesis concludes with a critical reflection on the possibilities and limitations of queerness in the context of queer Malay identity creation. Such reflection is crucial in thinking about the future directions for research on queerness and the politics of queer Malay identity. It is hoped that this study will show that queer-identified Malays reshape and transform received ideas about “Malayness” and “queerness” through their own invention of new and more nuanced ways of being “queer” and “Malay.” This study also fills up the lacunae in the scholarship on Malay identity and queer Malays by addressing the productions of Malay ethnicity and sexual identity among queer-identified Malays within and beyond Malaysia's borders.

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Mendes, Leonardo Pinto. "O retrato do Imperador : negociação e sexualidade no romance naturalista brasileiro /." Digital version accessible at:, 1998. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/utexas/main.

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Zamostny, Jeffrey. "FAUSTIAN FIGURES: MODERNITY AND MALE (HOMO)SEXUALITIES IN SPANISH COMMERCIAL LITERATURE, 1900-1936." UKnowledge, 2012. http://uknowledge.uky.edu/hisp_etds/4.

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I contend in this study that commercial novels and theater from early twentiethcentury Spain often present male (homo)sexual characters as a point of constellation for anxieties regarding modernization in Madrid and Barcelona. In works by Jacinto Benavente, Josep Maria de Sagarra, El Caballero Audaz (José María Carretero), Antonio de Hoyos y Vinent, Carmen de Burgos, Álvaro Retana, Eduardo Zamacois, and Alfonso Hernández-Catá, concerns about technological and socioeconomic change converge upon hustlers and blackmailers, queer seducers, and chaste inverts. I examine these figures alongside an allegorical interpretation of Goethe’s Faust in Marshall Berman’s book All That is Solid Melts into Air: The Experience of Modernity (1982) in order to foreground their varying responses to modern innovation. They alternately sell themselves to prosper under consumer capitalism, seduce others into savoring the pleasures of city life, or fall tragically to the conflicting pressures of tradition and change. In the process, they reveal the fear and enthusiasm of their creators vis-à-vis rapid urbanization, fluctuating class hierarchies, the commercialization of art, and the medicalization of sex from the turn of the nineteenth century to the Spanish Civil War. From a methodological standpoint, I argue that close readings of commercial works are worthwhile for what they reveal about the discursive framing of modernity and male (homo)sexualities in Spain in the early 1900s. Hence, I use techniques of literary analysis previously reserved for canonical writers such as Federico García Lorca and Luis Cernuda to discuss texts produced by their bestselling contemporaries, none of whom has been equally scrutinized by subsequent criticism. Existing scholarship on modernity and sexuality in Spain and abroad helps contextualize my detailed interpretations. Although my project is not a sustained exercise in comparative literature, I do situate Spanish works within historical and literary trends beyond Spain so as to acknowledge the interplay of transnational and local concerns surrounding modern change and sexual customs. By considering the primary texts in relation to varying temporal and geographic contexts, the dissertation aims to be of interest to a readership in and outside Hispanism, and to supplement important studies of modernity, (homo)sexualities, and literature that overlook Spain.

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Green, Corey Douglas. "Fidelity." Digital Archive @ GSU, 2008. http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/english_theses/37.

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Many of these poems are largely concerned with women and are told through the voices of women. Most of the poems are concerned with relationships, specifically romantic and familial. The last portion of the manuscript has Popular culture as its subject, though many of them are also romantic.

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Winkelmann, Cathrin. "Distance and desire : homoeroticism in Thomas Mann's Death in Venice." Thesis, McGill University, 1995. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=23858.

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The intention of this masters thesis is to examine how homosexuality is represented in Thomas Mann's 1913 novella Death in Venice, and to demonstrate how Mann was able to incorporate such a taboo issue in a story that Wilhelmine Germany would come to embrace.
The study consists of four chapters which examine four contexts in which the story, for the purposes of this thesis, should be interpreted. The first is historical, in which the previous reception of the novella, as well as the author's own struggle with his identity, is investigated. In the second, Mann's philosophical paradigms to represent homoeroticism, drawn largely from classical Greece and Nietzsche, are examined. Freud's views of homosexuality and sublimation furnish the basis for the third chapter, in which sublimated imagery of sexual desire in the text is considered. Finally, the narrative strategies employed by Mann that render the story palatable to his heterosexual, bourgeois reading audience are illustrated in the fourth chapter.

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Loman, Jennifer D. "Shame, Christian hospitality, and the American writer." Diss., University of Iowa, 2016. https://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/6986.

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Hospitality is relational, a system of ethics contending with difference, navigating the mutable boundaries between self and Other. Desire or duty to reflect the gracious inclusivity of God without regard for reciprocation marks Christian hospitality in particular. Given the shortcomings of humankind in comparison to the divine, however, the utopian ideal of hospitality extended to all cannot be had on Earth. Thus, the impulse to reach out to the Other continually comingles with the shameful awareness of human limitation, a paradox the philosopher Emmanuel Levinas calls “infinite responsibility.” Building upon Levinas’s concept and fellow philosopher Jacques Derrida’s assertion that “ethics is hospitality,” I examine how various U.S. writers engender or interrogate the concept of Christian hospitality. Specifically, I investigate how each author develops shame as an affect with regard to Christian hospitality to the racial Other, the impoverished Other, the sexual Other, and the inanimate and animate Other in the natural world. The chapters feature case studies focusing primarily on one historical figure, Christopher Columbus, and three writers—Erskine Caldwell, Richard Rodriguez, and Leslie Marmon Silko—and four key moments in U.S. history: the 1892 celebrations of Christopher Columbus as a figure of belonging vs. later shameful perceptions of him as a figure of oppression; the plight of the rural poor in Depression-era Georgia; the ostracism of AIDS sufferers in San Francisco in the early 1990s; and the conflict between capitalist developers and environmentalists in the Southwest in the early 2000s. I demonstrate 1) how an author interrogates the tenets of Christian hospitality; and 2) how shame can both inspire commitment to social change and cloud a text’s reception due to negative, and even painful, emotions. Ultimately, I examine the authors’ attempts at “mobilizing shame,” a tactic among activist authors to trigger public shame in order to garner support at the grassroots level, ultimately shaming government bodies and average citizens into reform.

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Morgan, Thomas Winston. "Homoeroticism and Thomas Mann's Death in Venice." PDXScholar, 1994. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/4798.

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In the late 1970s and early 1980s, previously unpublished portions of Thomas Mann's diaries were released for publication. These excerpts contained passages that removed all previous doubt as to Mann's sexual proclivities, affirming his homosexual inclinations. It had been suspected that Mann was homosexual before this time, but there was no conclusive proof until the release of the now-famous (or infamous) diary entries. Now that there is written proof of Mann's sexual orientation, literary scholars can more persuasively argue the often overlooked or circumvented homosexual aspects of his writings. This thesis is an investigation of the homoerotic elements in Thomas Mann's novella, Death in Venice. The present study draws out the homoerotic elements of the text and places them in a socio-historical context. Textual analysis, as it concerns coded homosexual desire, as well as a biographical schema of Mann highlight the homoerotic characterizations in the novella. The analysis is based in an historical context, a time when homosexual expression was strictly illegal. The tension created between Mann's need to process his homosexuality and his internal moral code - as well as the external moral code of Wilhelmine Germany - forced him to contrive a story in which he could only present homosexual desire in code or via allusions to the homosexuality of Ancient Greece.

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Fattah, Nadia Abdel. "James Baldwin's Search for a Homosexual Identity in his Novels." PDXScholar, 1996. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/5231.

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James Arthur Baldwin (1924- 1987) is one of the two major writers who have dared write about black gay men and from a black gay perspective. However, his fame as a racial spokesman and his insightful analyses of race relations in America tend to distract attention from the fact that he has been one of the most important homosexual writers of the twentieth century. Intolerance and homophobia among black and white Americans often led to a misinterpretation or misevaluation of James Baldwin's novels. James Baldwin was very courageous to come out as a black homosexual writer during the period of the Cold War and the Civil Rights movement. However, his awareness of racism and homophobia in the American society, and his difficult position of being a public figure and a spokesman for the Afro-Americans left its traces in his novels and influenced his novel writing career. The purpose of the present study is to show that out of intolerance, ignorance, and homophobia the evaluators of James Baldwin's novels often did him no justice. Baldwin through his novel writing developed a homosexual consciousness for himself. This struggle of coming-out was his personal struggle and it was marked by his burden of the doubly oppressed. I argue that Baldwin's search for an identity as a black homosexual writer is reflected in his writing. He constructed his identity through his writing. This study attempts to show that Baldwin's development of a homosexual identity took place in stages during his novel writing career. An analysis of the novels Go Tell It On the Mountain (1953), Giovanni's Room (1956), Another Country (1962), and Just Above My Head ( 1979) will demonstrate his movement from dealing with homosexuality as an underlying theme to using it as a tool to protest against any kinds of labels in the American society. Baldwin believed that discrimination cannot cease as long as the categorization of people through artificial constructs such as the "Negro" or the "homosexual" exists.

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Lesk, Andrew. "The play of desire, Sinclair Ross's gay fiction." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2001. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk3/ftp04/NQ60597.pdf.

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Dissertations / Theses on the topic 'Homosexuality in literature'

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