The encryption of the theme of homosexuality in Tennessee Williams's plays

被引：0

作者：

Xu Huaijing ^{[1
]}

机构：

[1] Beijing Univ Posts & Telecommun, Beijing 100876, Peoples R China

来源：

FOREIGN LITERATURE STUDIES | 2006年 / 28卷 / 04期

关键词：

gaze; transvestite; camp; homophobia;

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中图分类号：

I [文学];

学科分类号：

05 ;

摘要：

The theme of homosexuality exists in many of Tennessee Williams' plays, though he deals with it in a very oblique way. This can be best exemplified through the perspective of "gaze". Critics first applied the reductive and homophobic transvestite reading to Williams' plays, and then to the sophisticated and liberated camp reading. Through his oblique depiction of homosexuality, Williams attempts to challenge and subvert the stereotyped images of gays who are in the crisis of masculinity and who are living on the margin of society.

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