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Sidewalks of desire: Paradoxes of the postmodern flaneur in contemporary queer fiction

by Ivanchikova, Alla, Ph.D., STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK AT BUFFALO, 2007, 210 pages; 3291578

Abstract:

Sidewalks of Desire: Paradoxes of the Postmodern Flaneur in Contemporary Queer Fiction discusses the concept of the flaneur and analyzes the modes of appropriating this figure as the trope of writing queer sexuality. I argue that this appropriation reveals the queer characteristics inherent in the modernist flaneur , such as idleness, withdrawal from the reproduction process and the rejection of heteronormativity. At the same time this appropriation exposes and transcends the figure's limitations, such as masculinist, racial and class privilege, objectification of female desire and voyeuristic individualism. I trace the revision of the modernist concept in the writing of contemporary gay and lesbian writers: Samuel R. Delany, Sarah Schulman and K. Sello Duiker.

Advisor:	Dean, Tim
School:	STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK AT BUFFALO
Source:	DAI-A 68/12, p. , Jun 2008
Source Type:	Ph.D.
Subjects:	Comparative literature; African literature; Womens studies; American literature; Gender
Publication Number:	3291578

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