Queer Literary Criticism

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Queer Literary Criticism
Heteronormative structures and relationships in literature receive analysis and criticism through queering method. Various scholars in literary work comprehensively challenge social issues such as gender, masculinity, and sexuality. The queer theories explore the social and cultural issues, especially those related to sexuality and gender. Gender and sexuality theories have profoundly impacted our understanding of culture and society. Gender and sexualized issues have been questioned, and new concepts have been put forward regarding how the body becomes a Substantial system in structures through Performances and mimesis. A comprehensive and systematic critique of the Matter and Subjective experience is at the heart of most philosophies of Sexual identity. The subject is a social and political term that spans all theoretical and academic borders. Being a subject can signify membership of a specific community or topic of a tyrannical ruler or a conversation. The paper evaluates the competing methodologies among literary critics about gender and sexuality, summarizes their arguments, and states the most preferred approach to queering.
Various scholars reveal the overarching arguments concerning gender and sexuality. In her Queer Theory for Everyone, Sharon Marcus makes different crucial arguments about the subject matter. Feminism has transformed into homosexuality over a short period. Various scholars continue to give varied ideas and concepts about gender and sexuality, broadening the gap in library shelves for those books discussing the issue. The theories extrapolate the genealogies of sexuality and gender. In theory, the principle argument about sexuality translates to the oppression of women. The feminists view gender as the sexual dispute between men and women (Marcus, p 194). On the other hand, they define sexuality as the gender dispute between the two groups. Feminists earlier did not link gay men to lesbianism based on their manifestos.
The sexual differences caused the heterosexual dispute. Liberalism greatly influenced arguments on women's rights. Liberalism's influence significantly impacts how society defines and relates homosexuality to lesbianism and gay. From the theory, Queer is more spacious and accommodates both gay and lesbianism. The sexual fantasy, practice, and identity are not consistent enough to generalize queerness. Through the definition, queerness is experienced by everyone in society (Marcus, p.196). This brings the issue that since everyone is queer, no one is queer. The notable contribution of queer theory is its demonstration of the mutual definition of homosexuality and heterosexuality. According to Marcus, sexuality in queer studies relates to the construct of race, kinship, affection, and sexual reproduction. There should be negotiations between queer theorists and psychoanalysis when arguing about effect and sexuality. Analogy and equivalence are conflated.
The queering history by Goldberg and Menon gives an overview of the development and transformation of the subject. The two scholars talk about Queering the Renaissance to question the social and cultural aspects of sexuality and gender. Although the...