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Exploration of the theme and its relationship to the 20th Century Literature
Queer Studies is an emerging interdisciplinary field whose goal is to analyze antinormative sexual identities, performances, discourses and representations in order ultimately to destabilize the notion of normative sexuality and gender. ...
Queer studies comes out of a critique of identity politics. ... Therefore, the minority that is being discriminated, in this particularly case, the homosexual (queer), is forced to adopt the lager’s body “professional postures and suppress the expressiveness of their bodies” (ibid, 89). “Queer” differs from “gay” in attempts to be visible, recognized and respected for what they are, and not for what they appear to be in public opinion. ... As a consequence, queer studies has the necessity to speak and provide the queer community real images and texts to identify what has come up. Is about expressing oneself “the gay and lesbian movement, the queer movement, the dyke movement is about doing what feels right to you without catching any flak ever” (ibid, 109).
Among the different artistic expressions that function as transportation of images for the construction of a “collective identity, the agreed upon definition of membership, boundaries, and activities for the group ” (Gamson, 526), for the queer community we have literature. ...
However, in the past years, queer literature has emerged and penetrated into cultural thought in a movement that, by analyzing the different and complex experiences of homosexuals, increasing potentially the capacity to express thoughts, needs and emotions that finally satisfy the desire for self-worth, affirmation, pleasure, gratification, and love that minorities, in this case, the queer community, have.
Approximate Word count = 1313
Approximate Pages = 5.3
(250 words per page double spaced)
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