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dc.title | Dying protagonists in two gay southern novels: Randall Kenan's a visitation of spirits and Jim Grimsley's dream boy | en |
dc.contributor.author | Trušník, Roman | |
dc.relation.ispartof | American and British Studies Annual | |
dc.identifier.issn | 1803-6058 Scopus Sources, Sherpa/RoMEO, JCR | |
dc.date.issued | 2014 | |
utb.relation.volume | 7 | |
dc.citation.spage | 90 | |
dc.citation.epage | 97 | |
dc.type | conferenceObject | |
dc.language.iso | en | |
dc.publisher | University of Pardubice | |
dc.subject | A Visitation of Spirits | en |
dc.subject | American novel | en |
dc.subject | Dream Boy | en |
dc.subject | Gay literature | en |
dc.subject | Gothic elements | en |
dc.subject | Jim Grimsley | en |
dc.subject | Randall Kenan | en |
dc.subject | Southern literature | en |
dc.description.abstract | 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. | en |
utb.faculty | Faculty of Humanities | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10563/1007395 | |
utb.identifier.obdid | 43872805 | |
utb.identifier.scopus | 2-s2.0-85018409005 | |
utb.source | d-scopus | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2017-09-08T12:14:51Z | |
dc.date.available | 2017-09-08T12:14:51Z | |
utb.contributor.internalauthor | Trušník, Roman | |
utb.fulltext.affiliation | Roman Trušník Department of Modern Languages and Literatures, Tomas Bata University in Zlín, Czech Republic | |
utb.fulltext.dates | - | |
utb.fulltext.faculty | Faculty of Humanities | |
utb.fulltext.ou | Department of Modern Languages and Literatures |