QUEER CRITICISM AS A POST-MODERNIST APPROACH

Hamdi Hameed Yousif

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QUEER CRITICISM AS A POST-MODERNIST APPROACH

Authors:

Hamdi Hameed Yousif

Publisher:

University of Human Development

Journal:

Journal of University of Human Development Vol.1 Issue 1, pp.132-143

Document Type:

Article

Publication Date:

1/2015

Document Language:

English

Document ID (Org No.):

2001933000

pISSN:

2411-7765

Abstract:

 One of the post-modernist approaches to literary criticism is the queer criticism which has not been evaluated properly. Queer criticism can refer to any piece of literary criticism that interprets a text from a non-straight perspective. Therefore, it includes both lesbian and gay criticism.
The aim of this paper, therefore, is to trace the social and political reasons behind the emergence of Queer criticism in the late twentieth century till it acquired momentum in the twenty-first century. After trying to define the terms related to the Queer criticism, the paper tries to examine the poetics of queer (gay and lesbian) literary works and to point out the main characteristic features of this critical approach by identifying the criteria and the textual evidence by which a literary work is labeled queer. It, also tries to shed light on the common features between queer criticism and feminism, on the one hand, and queer criticism and the deconstructuralist approach on the other hand. The final section of the study is a critique which points out the negative aspects of this approach.

Article Details

QUEER CRITICISM AS A POST-MODERNIST APPROACH

Authors: Hamdi Hameed Yousif

Publisher: University of Human Development

Journal: Journal of University of Human Development Vol.1 Issue 1, pp.132-143

Document Type: Article

Publication Date: 1/2015

Document Language: English

Document ID (Org No.): 2001933000

pISSN: 2411-7765

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Authors:

Hamdi Hameed Yousif

Publisher:

University of Human Development

Journal:

Journal of University of Human Development Vol.1 Issue 1, pp.132-143

Document Type:

Article

Publication Date:

1/2015

Document Language:

English

Document ID (Org No.):

2001933000

pISSN:

2411-7765