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- Title
CANONIZING QUEER IN FICTION: THE PLACE OF ALAN HOLLINGHURST IN THE BRITISH NOVEL.
- Authors
EZBER, Gökçen
- Abstract
The present study aims at contextualizing the British novelist Alan Hollinghurst's fiction in the modern British Novel dealing with themes of homosexuality. The study will focus on the novels of E.M. Forster, Christopher Isherwood and Ronald Firbank and relate them to the novels of Alan Hollinghurst. Such a comparison will shed light on the evolution of themes of homosexuality and the depiction of queer characters in the British novel. Different from his predecessors, Hollinghurst focuses on homosexuality not only as a concealed or revealed identity, but as a textual phenomenon. Thus, Hollinghurst offers a wider fictional realm for the understanding of homosexual selfhood and identity. It could be argued that Hollinghurst's fiction builds up a 'queer' canon in British fiction that deals with the homosexual experience not as a reason for alienation, but as a lens which opens up to a wider human experience and identity.
- Subjects
HOLLINGHURST, Alan, 1954-; FICTION; HOMOSEXUALITY
- Publication
Pamukkale University Journal of Social Sciences Institute / Pamukkale Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü Dergisi, 2020, Vol 38, p87
- ISSN
1308-2922
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.30794/pausbed.648454