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History's Queer Stories: Retrieving and Navigating Homosexuality in British Fiction about the Second World War
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Abstract Critical analysis of the dramatisation of homosexuality in British fiction about the Second World War is noticeable only by its relative absence from the field. Whereas feminist literary criticism has broadened the canon of war fiction to include narratives by and about women, queer scholars have se... view more
Critical analysis of the dramatisation of homosexuality in British fiction about the Second World War is noticeable only by its relative absence from the field. Whereas feminist literary criticism has broadened the canon of war fiction to include narratives by and about women, queer scholars have seldom focused on literary representations of homosexuality during the war. Natalie Marena Nobitz closes a glaring gap in the critical attention of four novels dealing with the disruption of gender roles and institutionalised heteronormativity: Walter Baxter's Look Down in Mercy (1951), Mary Renault's The Charioteer (1953), Sarah Waters' The Night Watch (2006) and Adam Fitzroy's Make Do and Mend (2012).... view less
Keywords
homosexuality; military; World War II; gender; literature; queer studies; gender studies
Classification
Women's Studies, Feminist Studies, Gender Studies
Science of Literature, Linguistics
Free Keywords
British War Literature; Queer; British Studies; Queer Theory; Gender History; Literary Studies
Document language
English
Publication Year
2018
Publisher
transcript Verlag
City
Bielefeld
Page/Pages
310 p.
Series
Queer Studies, 19
DOI
https://doi.org/10.14361/9783839445433
ISBN
978-3-8394-4543-3
Status
Published Version; reviewed
Licence
Creative Commons - Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0