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Chapter 9 - Queer Narrative

from Part III - Representation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 June 2020

Siobhan B. Somerville
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University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
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Summary

Narrative theory has been used extensively by queer theorists to reconceptualize the cultural workings of sex, gender, and sexuality, not to mention race, nation, indigeneity, and class, among other key categories. This chapter provides an overview of some queer renderings of narrative. The chapter focuses on the interconnections between narrative, sexuality, modernity, and colonialism before considering some dominant narrative genres and queer critical engagements with these: the transition autobiography, the coming out narrative, and the “progress” narrative, explored at the level of the individual and of the collective and historical. The chapter concludes with an analysis of the uses of some of these narrative forms in the 2015 same-sex marriage referendum in the Republic of Ireland.

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Print publication year: 2020

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Further Reading

Jolly, Margaretta. “Coming Out of the Coming Out Story: Writing Queer Lives.Sexualities 4, no. 4 (2001): 475–97.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Lanser, Susan S., and Warhol, Robyn, eds. Narrative Theory Unbound: Queer and Feminist Interventions. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2015.Google Scholar
Miller, David A. Bringing Out Roland Barthes. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992.Google Scholar

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