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A Study of Congenital Invert in the novels of Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall's The Well of Loneliness and Eugene Luther Gore Vidal's The City and the Pillar
Queer Theory is an interdisciplinary field that encourages one to look at the world through new avenues. It is a way of thinking that dismantles traditional assumptions about gender and sexual identities, challenges traditional normative approaches, and fights against social inequality. It grows out of gay/lesbian studies, feminist studies and feminist theory. It analyses how the sexual identities are constructed, how they operate, how they are enforced, and how social concepts are linking the sexual behaviors with sexual identities. Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall, an English writer, who is known for her vociferous opinions about homosexuality in the novel The Well of Loneliness (1928) which created a scandal in Britain for its treatment of lesbianism. In this novel, she explored the homosexual behavior of the protagonist Stephen Gordon, a female invert with various women. Eugene Luther Gore Vidal, prolific American novelist and essayist who is well known for his outspoken political opinions and witty satirical observations in the novel The City and the Pillar (1948), which shocked the public with its direct and unadorned examination of a homosexual character Jim Willard, a handsome youth in Virginia who have an intimate homosexual relationship with his friend Bob . This research paper identifies the controversial norms of homosexual identity which struggles for dominance in the heterosexual society in the novels of Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall’s The Well of Loneliness and Gore Vidal’s The City and the Pillar. The congenital inverts create a chaotic situation for the future generation because "normally sexed" individuals, particularly children or young adults, are very easily lured into experimenting with homosexual practices, thereby accounting for homosexuality's contagious quality.
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Queer, Congenital invert, Homosexuality and Heterosexuality
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"A Study of Congenital Invert in the novels of Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall's The Well of Loneliness and Eugene Luther Gore Vidal's The City and the Pillar", International Journal of Novel Research and Development (www.ijnrd.org), ISSN:2456-4184, Vol.8, Issue 9, page no.e7-e10, September-2023, Available :http://www.ijnrd.org/papers/IJNRD2309402.pdf
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