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Název: | Dying protagonists in two gay southern novels: Randall Kenan's a visitation of spirits and Jim Grimsley's dream boy | ||||||||||
Autor: | Trušník, Roman | ||||||||||
Typ dokumentu: | Článek ve sborníku (English) | ||||||||||
Zdrojový dok.: | American and British Studies Annual. 2014, vol. 7, p. 90-97 | ||||||||||
ISSN: | 1803-6058 (Sherpa/RoMEO, JCR) | ||||||||||
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Abstrakt: | 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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