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Antinormativity notwithstanding: The normative male author and politics of queer literary interpretation

Year: 2025

Type: article

Abstract: Setting off from the recent critical turn towards habitual antinormativity in queer theory, this article reconstructs various conceptualizations, contestations and retheorizations of normativity and antinormativity in queer theory and masculinity studies. While a number of contemporary gender-focused literary scholars have shown the ways in which the uncritical adoption of antinormative presuppositions results in a reductive understanding of normativity as necessarily static and backward-looking, the issue of what a post-antinormative queer theory would look like remains open to speculation. Drawing on these studies, the article formulates a concept of the "normative male author" as an exercise in post-antinormative perspective on the connections between the politics of queer inquiry, literature and masculinity.

Source: Open Research Europe

DOI: 10.12688/openreseurope.20787.1

Author: Slaven Crnić

Language: English

Topic: Gender and Feminist Studies

Subfield: Gender Studies

Field: Social Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

Open Access status: gold

Estimated APC paid: $841

Funders: European Commission, Central European University, HORIZON EUROPE Framework Programme

Awards: The Cartography of the Political Novel in Europe, G6293961927