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Embodiment and Identity Construction : = Liminal Spaces in Queer Literature.

Record Type:	Language materials, manuscript : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Embodiment and Identity Construction :/
Reminder of title:	Liminal Spaces in Queer Literature.
Author:	Carcione, Kylee.
Description:	1 online resource (41 pages)
Notes:	Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 83-11.
Contained By:	Masters Abstracts International83-11.
Subject:	Literature. -
Online resource:	click for full text (PQDT)
ISBN:	9798438718345

Embodiment and Identity Construction : = Liminal Spaces in Queer Literature.
Carcione, Kylee.

Embodiment and Identity Construction :Liminal Spaces in Queer Literature. - 1 online resource (41 pages)

Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 83-11.

Thesis (M.A.)--Indiana University of Pennsylvania, 2022.

Includes bibliographical references

This study will look closely at four texts written between 1973 and 2019, beginning with Adrienne Rich's collection of poems Diving into the Wreck, moving into the visual narratives of Alison Bechdel's Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic and Maia Kobabe's Gender Queer: A Memoir, and concluding with Akwaeke Emezi's Freshwater, a novel that converses with the primary concerns of identity construction of the first three writers. Across these texts, themes of gender identity and sexuality will be analyzed in concurrence with exploration of the relationship of the body and mind relative to pervasive heteronormativity within queer characters. Liminal spaces and surrealist moments, with consideration to distortions and disruptions of linear temporality, within the texts will be examined as places in which identity is both constructed and deconstructed, embodied and disembodied, and it is within these spheres that the self becomes concretized. Henri Bergson's concept of the veil will provide an initial theoretical model. In his book Laughter, Bergson suggests that the self is constructed "between nature and ourselves" where "a veil is interposed: a veil that is dense and opaque for the common herd-thin, almost transparent, for the artist and the poet", and that artist "has no other object than to brush aside the utilitarian symbols, the conventional and socially accepted generalities, in short, everything that veils reality from us, in order to bring us face to face with reality itself" (131, 141). Reality, for these characters who would be the "artist and the poet", is an acceptance and actualization-and almost a transcendence-of the truest self, in addition to being the ability to perform this truest self in external life. This veil, more literally in the specific cases of these texts, is this societal compulsory heterosexuality and heteronormativity. This movement through accepting the clarity of the veil and finding the self is a queer business and is not without its disharmonious moments within, and each of the narratives describe this war within as the characters overcome the internal war that begs to achieve peace.

Electronic reproduction.
Ann Arbor, Mich. :
ProQuest,
2024

Mode of access: World Wide Web

ISBN: 9798438718345Subjects--Topical Terms:

557269
Literature.
Subjects--Index Terms:

Identity constructionIndex Terms--Genre/Form:

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Electronic books.

Embodiment and Identity Construction : = Liminal Spaces in Queer Literature.
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