Suchergebnisse

Das Überschreiten von Geschlechtergrenzen und das Spiel mit ambivalenten Geschlechtszuweisungen (gender-bending) ist mittlerweile zu einem festen Bestandteil unserer Kultur geworden. Gender-bending begegnet uns in der Werbung, in Musikvideos, im Film und in der Literatur. Dieses Phänomen und seine Ausprägungen in der englischsprachigen Gegenwartsliteratur macht Eveline Kilian zum Ausgangspunkt ihres Buches. Hierbei zeigt sie sowohl die Parameter des Geschlechterdiskurses auf als auch die Möglichkeiten, sie durch gender-bending zu destabilisieren. Ein weiterer Fokus liegt auf den gestalterischen Freiheiten der literarischen Imagination und ihrem Potenzial, durch eine kritische Textpraxis die Grenzen der bestehenden Geschlechterordnung zu markieren und alternative Geschlechtermodelle zu entwerfen. Dadurch entsteht ein produktiver Dialog zwischen Gender-Theorie und literarischen Texten

This paper uses the concept of queer time to examine the functions of the alternative temporalities created in Proust's Recherche and Richardson's Pilgrimage. It argues that despite obvious similarities between the two works in the relevance they attribute to those privileged moments in which linear time can be transcended, there are also marked differences which are at least partly related to the question of gender. Despite its being triggered by experiences of ex-temporality, the writing project of Proust's narrator is clearly embedded in conceptions of generational time, and his calculated management of the homosexual closet requires an absolute control over his material and a heterosexual framing. Thus in the Recherche queer time only surfaces in isolated moments and does not unfold a sustained impact on the novel, whereas in Pilgrimage the female protagonist's moments of being produce a life-sustaining queer energy that permeates the whole text and helps her to withstand the pressure of heteronormativity and explore queer time as a way of being and living and, ultimately, as a mode of writing and reading.

Presenting some of the latest research in queer theory, this book draws together diverse perspectives to shed light on possible 'queer futures' when different affective, temporal, and local contexts are brought into play. As such, it will appeal to scholars of cultural, political, literary, and social theory, as well as those with interests in gender and sexuality, activism, and queer theory.