Dying Protagonists in Two Gay Southern Novels: Randall Kenan's A Visitation of Spirits and Jim Grimsley's Dream Boy

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angličtina

Original language name

Dying Protagonists in Two Gay Southern Novels: Randall Kenan's A Visitation of Spirits and Jim Grimsley's Dream Boy

Original language description

The present article explores two southern novels, Randall Kenan's A Visitation of Spirits (1989) and Jim Grimsley's Dream Boy (1995). These two novels are at first sight a deviation from the contemporary tradition of coming-out (i.e., gay coming-of-age)novels, as their teenage protagonists do not successfully develop a proud gay identity but die a violent death, by suicide and murder, respectively. However, a closer exploration of the texts themselves as well as the literary context will also reveal that even though both novels do constitute a departure from the previous tradition of gay coming-of-age novels by their extensive use of Gothic elements, they still contain a plausible story portraying the interplay of the social and psychological facets of growing up.

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Type

J_x - Unclassified - Peer-reviewed scientific article (Jimp, Jsc and Jost)

CEP classification

AJ - Literature, mass media, audio-visual activities

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Continuities

V - Vyzkumna aktivita podporovana z jinych verejnych zdroju

Publication year

2014

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

American & British Studies Annual

ISSN

1803-6058

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Volume of the periodical

7

Issue of the periodical within the volume

1

Country of publishing house

CZ - CZECH REPUBLIC

Number of pages

8

Pages from-to

90-97

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