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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…
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- Title Come as You Are: Sexuality and Narrative
- Author Judith Roof
- Binding Paperback
- Edition [ Edition: First
- Pages 248
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Columbia University Press, NY
- Date 1996-09-09
- ISBN 9780231104371 / 0231104375
- Weight 0.76 lbs (0.34 kg)
- Dimensions 8.98 x 6.06 x 0.59 in (22.81 x 15.39 x 1.50 cm)
- Ages 22 to UP years
- Grade levels 17 - UP
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- Sex & Gender: Gay
- Topical: Lgbt
- Library of Congress subjects Sex in literature, Homosexuality in literature
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 96-10159
- Dewey Decimal Code 809.933
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