... similarities between postmodernist ontological instability and queer resistances to teleology. Building on the theoretical work of Brian McHale and Lee Edelman, I argue that Pynchon’s representations of sadomasochism in Gravity’s Rainbow become a destabilizing narrative force that queers Pynchon’s poetics...

..., Slavery, and the Problem of Freedom in Wide Sargasso Sea the primitive, of Africa and unbridled sexuality, of sadomasochism and historical slavery, of black-on-white rape and emancipation, and of vio- lence and sexual liberation. Through these difficult analogies, Rhys plays with the meanings...

... of sadomasochism or perhaps plain violence in this otherwise comic incident. It is difficult to say for sure whether it is Miss Douce or Lenehan who is most at risk.13 Whatever the case, the passage intimates that sensuality and mimicry are potentially hazardous. In Homer it is not the physical beauty...

... many narratives, Adrian Caesar’s Taking It Like a Man equates Owen’s homosexuality with sadomasochism and suggests that Owen in the end celebrates the war he claims to be decrying because it helps form same- sex bonds (154). Caesar’s earlier work refers to Owen’s “morbid psycho- sexual...

...,” Dianne Chisholm asserts, critics— particularly feminist critics— read Barnes’s obscen­ ity for signs of forbidden being; they “out” a whole carnival of transgressive and/or abject sexualities— lesbianism, homosexual­ ity, sadomasochism, vampirism, transvestism...

... of the groin!” At the center of eroticism and death Barnes depicts the city’s queer lovers, al- ready damned in this world as well as the next, redundantly cursing each other. Note here what Nora cannot—secretly a pleasure, excommunica- tion provides the very language for lesbian sadomasochism...