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- Title: Homicidal Heterosexuals: Rescripting Medieval Queerness in the Novels of PC Doherty (English) (Critical Essay)
- Author : Traffic (Parkville)
- Release Date : January 01, 2005
- Genre: Reference,Books,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 369 KB
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In this article I interrogate the work of British mystery writer PC Doherty and its engagement with Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. By examining the ways in which Doherty portrays Chaucer's most sexually ambiguous characters, I reveal a literary rescripting that is complexly homophobic in its formulation of queerness as either punishable or nonexistent. I present my analysis as a warning against overcaution in queer thinking about history, arguing that the tendency of some of our most quotidian and disposable writing to revise the past in homophobic terms is a trend that demands a proactive countering by antihomophobic critics. Queer theorists are not often described as 'cautious', and I am yet to encounter one of their critics who attacks them for being too 'careful' or 'wary'. Instead, queer theory's reputation for subversion, playfulness and experimentation remains the key site of both its perceived weaknesses and strengths. This reputation is not undeserved: practitioners of queer would be disappointed, I trust, if their conclusions failed to cause a degree of disruption within more traditional academic discourses. When it comes to one critical question, however, the statements of queer theorists tend to lose every trace of daring. I am referring, of course, to the past.