Vernon's Failing as a Way of Literary Queering

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Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

Vernon's Failing as a Way of Literary Queering

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

With this paper, I would like to contribute to these discussions. By considering queer as a process, I understand the act of queering not only as a }}radical move(( that }}goes beyond a simple insertion of a gay subject in an existent society(( (Nigianni, Storr 2009: 24), but also both as a political and theoreti cal method that }}breaks down oppositions imposed by state thought and its various representatives (family, school, law or army)(( (Nigianni, Storr 2009: 25). Using this definition of queering, as a process of deviation, I would like tobriefly elaborate on the concept of unbecoming in Despentes&apos; Vernon Subutex 1. I argue that Vernon&apos;s failing functions as a key mechanism for }}peripheralmode of undoing(( (Butler 2004: 15). In The Queer Art of Failure, Jack Halberstamembraces failure as }}a refusal of mastery, a critique of the intuitive connectionswithin capitalism between success and profit, and as a counterhegemonic dis-course of losing(( (2011: 11-12) and attempts to study the circumstances of }}failing, losing, forgetting, unmaking, undoing, unbecoming(( (2011: 2) as a way of being in the world.Halberstam also understands failure as a part of other queeraffects (2011: 89). Adopting these queer lens allows us to see Vernon&apos;s various failures as (un)becoming (Deleuze, Guattari 1988; Braidotti 2011 and 2014), un-fixing (Halberstam 2011), or undoing (Butler 2004). Butler argues that }}if gender is a kind of a doing, an incessant activity performed [...] it is not for that reason automatic or mechanical(( (2004: 1), it can be also collectively undone. Throughout linear reading, I will examine Vernon&apos;s failing as a narrative pro-cess of undoing, unbecoming,or even as a form of disidentification, that Butlerdefines as the &quot;experience of misrecognition, this uneasy sense of standing undera sign to which one does and does not belong(( (1993: 219). This experience al-lows the subject to orient oneself differently and gives rise to unexpected formsof sociality and relationships (with one&apos;s identity, others, objects, or places). Inother terms, failure can be understoodin terms of displacement and }}disorien-tation(( (Ahmed 2006: 10) within the (hetero)normative schemes.Thus, readingVernon&apos;s trajectory from a queer perspective means to see his relation to theseschemes. Vernon stands for a sign, a cisgender straight white man, who at thesame time fails to be one.

Název v anglickém jazyce

Vernon's Failing as a Way of Literary Queering

Popis výsledku anglicky

With this paper, I would like to contribute to these discussions. By considering queer as a process, I understand the act of queering not only as a }}radical move(( that }}goes beyond a simple insertion of a gay subject in an existent society(( (Nigianni, Storr 2009: 24), but also both as a political and theoreti cal method that }}breaks down oppositions imposed by state thought and its various representatives (family, school, law or army)(( (Nigianni, Storr 2009: 25). Using this definition of queering, as a process of deviation, I would like tobriefly elaborate on the concept of unbecoming in Despentes&apos; Vernon Subutex 1. I argue that Vernon&apos;s failing functions as a key mechanism for }}peripheralmode of undoing(( (Butler 2004: 15). In The Queer Art of Failure, Jack Halberstamembraces failure as }}a refusal of mastery, a critique of the intuitive connectionswithin capitalism between success and profit, and as a counterhegemonic dis-course of losing(( (2011: 11-12) and attempts to study the circumstances of }}failing, losing, forgetting, unmaking, undoing, unbecoming(( (2011: 2) as a way of being in the world.Halberstam also understands failure as a part of other queeraffects (2011: 89). Adopting these queer lens allows us to see Vernon&apos;s various failures as (un)becoming (Deleuze, Guattari 1988; Braidotti 2011 and 2014), un-fixing (Halberstam 2011), or undoing (Butler 2004). Butler argues that }}if gender is a kind of a doing, an incessant activity performed [...] it is not for that reason automatic or mechanical(( (2004: 1), it can be also collectively undone. Throughout linear reading, I will examine Vernon&apos;s failing as a narrative pro-cess of undoing, unbecoming,or even as a form of disidentification, that Butlerdefines as the &quot;experience of misrecognition, this uneasy sense of standing undera sign to which one does and does not belong(( (1993: 219). This experience al-lows the subject to orient oneself differently and gives rise to unexpected formsof sociality and relationships (with one&apos;s identity, others, objects, or places). Inother terms, failure can be understoodin terms of displacement and }}disorien-tation(( (Ahmed 2006: 10) within the (hetero)normative schemes.Thus, readingVernon&apos;s trajectory from a queer perspective means to see his relation to theseschemes. Vernon stands for a sign, a cisgender straight white man, who at thesame time fails to be one.

Druh

C - Kapitola v odborné knize

CEP obor

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OECD FORD obor

60205 - Literary theory

Projekt

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Návaznosti

S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach

Rok uplatnění

2024

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

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

Název knihy nebo sborníku

Requires Authentication Published by transcript Verlag 2024 Queer and Feminist Relationships in Contemporary Fiction Concepts, Practices, and Aesthetics in Romance Cultures

ISBN

978-3-8394-7342-9

Počet stran výsledku

13

Strana od-do

45-57

Počet stran knihy

300

Název nakladatele

Transcript

Místo vydání

Bielefeld

Kód UT WoS kapitoly

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