Spades, actors and fagsfiction and/as Queer Theory in Timoty Findley's "Spadework"
- Lorenzo Modia, María Jesús (ed. lit.)
- Alonso Giráldez, José Miguel (ed. lit.)
- Amenedo Costa, Mónica (ed. lit.)
- Cabarcos-Traseira, María J. (ed. lit.)
- Lasa Álvarez, Begoña (ed. lit.)
Editorial: Servizo de Publicacións ; Universidade da Coruña
ISBN: 978-84-9749-278-2
Año de publicación: 2008
Páginas: 151-159
Congreso: Asociación Española de Estudios Anglo-Norteamericanos. Congreso (31. 2007. A Coruña)
Tipo: Aportación congreso
Resumen
This paper analyses Timothy Findley's last novel, "Spadework" (2002 [2001]), to engage the relevance of Gender/Queer Theory as a visible intertext. As we read, it seems apparent that that Spadework provides a further turn of the screw to invigorate the gendermarked fiction/theory popular in Canadian writing. Issues of gender/sex performativity and performance, in several ways, populate the novel, which, as a whole, is a critique of identity very close to the one proposed by Queer Theory models, usually oriented to interrogate normativity and the identities that it produces.