Gothic & Queer: an essay on Lost Souls, by Poppy Z. Brite
The Gothic Subculture features a highly performative disposition relating to sexuality, body, and gender and, thus, the scene promotes the emergence of queer identities. The transgender author Poppy Z. Brite inserts his novel Lost Souls in this context as one of the few authors of Gothic fiction to...
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| Formato: | artículo |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2022 |
| País: | Brasil |
| Recursos: | Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (UFSC) |
| Repositorio: | Revista Estudos Feministas |
| Idioma: | portugués |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:periodicos.ufsc.br:article/75409 |
| Acesso em linha: | https://periodicos.ufsc.br/index.php/ref/article/view/75409 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palavra-chave: | subcultura gótica teoria de gênero ficção gótica identidade queer teoría de género ficción gótica queer identidad Gothic Subculture gender theory gothic fiction queer identity |
| Resumo: | The Gothic Subculture features a highly performative disposition relating to sexuality, body, and gender and, thus, the scene promotes the emergence of queer identities. The transgender author Poppy Z. Brite inserts his novel Lost Souls in this context as one of the few authors of Gothic fiction to relate his work to the subculture of the same name. In this article I discuss the Gothic Subculture parallel to Butler's theory of gender, and I approach the character development of Nothing, Lost Souls’ protagonist, relating it to the aesthetics of the Gothic scene. |
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