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Come as You Are - (Between Men-Between Women: Lesbian and Gay Studies) by Judith Roof (Paperback)
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Highlights
- Roof's ambitious, wide-ranging book links narrative theory, theories of sexuality, and gay and lesbian theory to explore the place of homosexuality, and specifically the lesbian, in the tradition of western narrative.
- About the Author: Judith Roof is associate professor of English at Indiana University, Bloomington.
- 248 Pages
- Literary Criticism, LGBT
- Series Name: Between Men-Between Women: Lesbian and Gay Studies
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About the Book
Ranging through films, television, lesbian novels, and narrative theory from Victor/Victoria to Star Trek: The Next Generation, from Barnes's Nightwood to Barthes's The Pleasure of the Text, Judith Roof charts how ideas of narrative and sexuality inform, determine, and reproduce one another. She identifies the paradigmatic lesbian story, its unvarying repetition, and how it might be recast.
Book Synopsis
Roof's ambitious, wide-ranging book links narrative theory, theories of sexuality, and gay and lesbian theory to explore the place of homosexuality, and specifically the lesbian, in the tradition of western narrative. According to Freud, perversions are the necessary obstacles in a heroic plot of normal heterosexual development; and homosexuality is the nineteenth century's classic case of perversion. Roof builds on Freud to illustrate that a structural understanding of narrative enforces a heterosexual paradigm, a sense of meaning that provides psychological stability for the reader. Looking at film, television, and lesbian novels, Roof explores how ideas of narrative and sexuality inform, determine, and reproduce one another. She identifies the paradigmatic lesbian story, its unvarying repetition, and how it might be recast. Understanding identification as a narrative practice, and narrative as typically heterosexual and reproductive, Roof shows how sexuality and narrative must be disentangled to alter oppressive social practices.Come As You Are marks a significant contribution to lesbian and gay studies, psychoanalytic theory, and feminism.Review Quotes
In exploring the intrication of narrative and sexuality, Roof charts the ways in which sexual normativity and narrative closure are capable of being undone, and different types of story written and pleasure enjoyed.
About the Author
Judith Roof is associate professor of English at Indiana University, Bloomington.Dimensions (Overall): 8.98 Inches (H) x 6.06 Inches (W) x .59 Inches (D)
Weight: .76 Pounds
Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up
Number of Pages: 248
Genre: Literary Criticism
Sub-Genre: LGBT
Series Title: Between Men-Between Women: Lesbian and Gay Studies
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Format: Paperback
Author: Judith Roof
Language: English
Street Date: September 9, 1996
TCIN: 88392556
UPC: 9780231104371
Item Number (DPCI): 247-09-9515
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported
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