...Russell McDonald Copyright © Hofstra University 2005 m Who Speaks for Fergus? Silence, Homophobia, and the Anxiety of Yeatsian Influence in Joyce Russell McDonald O f the many loves that dare not speak their name for Joyce’s Stephen Dedalus, none remains more enigmatic...

...Jeff Solomon m Capote and the Trillings: Homophobia and Literary Culture at Midcentury Jeff Solomon I n a reminiscence published in George Plimpton’s oral history of Tru­ man Capote, Diana Trilling recounts her and her husband Lionel’s first meeting with Capote, almost...

...Bruce Robbins Twentieth-Century Literature’s Andrew J. Kappel Prize in Literary Criticism, 2008 The winner of this year’s prize is Jeff Solomon’s “Capote and the Trill­ ings: Homophobia and Literary Culture at Midcentury.”The judge is Bruce Robbins, Old Dominion Foundation Professor...

... the au­ thor himself promoted. Scholarly investigations such as Mark Spilka’s Hemingway’s Quarrel with Androgyny, Carl Eby’s Hemingway’s Fetishism, and Nancy Comley and Robert Scholes s Hemingway’s Genders have explored gender identity, hyperbolic masculinity, homophobia, and transvestism...

... of homophobia, it is still the case that commercial interests rather than commitment to social justice made a decisively progressive historical difference. Chasin questions this progressivism, arguing that “selling out” actually undermined the gay rights movement. But other critics disagree, including...

... as a commentary on his assassinated friend’s manuscript (which is disguised as a narrative of the deposed King Charles II of Zembla), Nabokov parodies contemporary homophobia and “ultimately suggests that homophobic narratives are as far-fetched as Kinbote’s Zembla narrative” (64). Nabokov links...

... version o f high modernism, w hich he was reassessing at the time. As in Lamos’s essay, Butler’s theories o f melancholic homophobia seem designed to explicate Eliot: the process o f heterosexual gendering requires the rejection o f homosexual love objects and produces a melancholic sub­...

... of homophobia (not to mention anti- Semitism and other problems): in her travesty of the truth quest, Barnes replaces any longed-for naturalness with prosthesis, a move that ultimately allies the “perverse” with garish spectacles o f lifelessness, impotency, and inadequacy.1 There are dolls standing...

... to the interdiction against same-sex desire that leads to homophobia and “compulsory heterosexuality.”5 Homophobia and the misogynistic objectification of women as commodities can thus be linked together and traced back to the consolidation of patriarchal power (see also Rubin 180). Sedgwick illustrates...

... and shaped as progres­ sive in terms of their linguistic innovations, neither one escaped “forms of misogyny and homophobia” (48). One element in the excellence of Davidson’s San Francisco Renaissance turned upon his willingness to challenge the cult status of poets who had more often been idolized...

... both to Cat and to Jeffy sprang less from knee-jerk homophobia than from anxiety about how she might experience heterosexual intercourse after her hysterectomy: “It wasn’t until years later that I realized it might have been because of my own fears, the things I’d thought about in the hospital, my own...

... in Orlando and A Room of One’s Own, I understand it as a challenge to the hetero/homo dichotomy that Woolf believed to be producing another social invention: a culturally widespread homophobia that isolated women from other women emotionally, politically, and professionally. 132 Bisexuality...

... which would name it otherwise—including straight-acting gay identities which dismiss love between men as being overly feminine—partakes of the wider societal homophobia working to erase love between men or name it as shameful. In The City and the Pillar, love between men is precisely what Jim...

.... Flitterman-Lewis, Sandy. To Desire Differently: Feminism and the French Cinema. Urbana: U of Illinois P, 1990. Fone, Byrne R. S. A Road to Stonewall: Male Homosexuality and Homophobia in English and American Literature 1750-1969. New York: Twayne, 1995. Forster, E. M. The Life...

... Communism” (90). Now, given the series of guilt-by-association equations that characterized the para­ noid style of American Cold War politics, opposition to communism could require other apolitically “authentic” and natural “functioning,” such as homophobia, resistance to equal rights...

... in Fiction: A Collection of Original Essays. Ed. David Fine. Albuquerque: U of New Mexico P, 1984. 169-88. Wood, Robin. “The Murderous Gays: Hitchcock’s Homophobia.” Hitchcock’s Films Revisited. New York: Columbia UP, 2002. 336-57. Woolf, Virginia. “The Cinema.” 1926. The British Avant...

... celebration of the negativity of queer sexuality offers a powerful resistance against attempts to put affirmative forms of sociality at the service of homophobia, it is, not at all surprisingly, less helpful in the analysis of queer affections at their most communal, egalitarian, nurturing, and loving...

... of the vulnerable young woman as a blameless victim of male carelessness, and the relendess homophobia—a displacement of her anger at the treacherousness of the straight male—loaded against Raoul Duquette. (133) Focusing on Mansfield’s biographical details and regarding her work as a symp...

...-Semitism, or homophobia; rather, these attitudes are focused and articulated through an overriding concern with one particular form of manhood. At the heart of my argument is the observation that in The Sun Abo Rises sexual difference is the driving force behind the novel’s other...

... borrow from the tradition of the gothic, “the literary genre in which homophobia found its most apt and ramified embodi­ ment” (Sedgwick 186).Therefore when Clarissa hears Joe’s first reports on Parry’s phone calls and letters, she jokes, “A secret gay love affair with a Jesus 120 Why Can’t...