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WONDER BOYS: TALES OF THE EXTRAORDINARILY
QUEER ADOLESCENT
by
Jeffrey L. Bohn
A Dissertation Presented to the
FACULTY OF THE GRADUATE SCHOOL
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
In Partial Fulfillment of the
Requirements for the Degree
DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY
(ENGLISH)
December 2006
Copyright 2006 Jeffrey L. Bohn
Object Description
| Title | Wonder boys: tales of the extraordinarily queer adolescent |
| Author | Bohn, Jeffrey L. |
| Author email | jebon@sbcglobal.net |
| Degree | Doctor of Philosophy |
| Document type | Dissertation |
| Degree program | English |
| School | College of Letters, Arts and Sciences |
| Date defended/completed | 2005-12-20 |
| Date submitted | 2006 |
| Restricted until | Restricted until 9 Dec. 2008. |
| Date published | 2008-12-09 |
| Advisor (committee chair) | Modleski, Tania |
| Advisor (committee member) |
McKenna, Teresa Kincaid, James Cheng, Victor Gambrell, Alice Sturken, Marita Gross, Larry |
| Abstract | This project explores how different novelists and performers situate fantasies of queer adolescence through particular culturally constructed spaces of home. Central to this analysis is the figure of the "Wonder Boy." Memoirs and narratives of queer adolescence tend to construct the central subject as "extra-ordinary" to use Biddy Martin's term. In these works, the central characters' difference is articulated via non-normative physical traits, cross-gender characteristics (the inversion trope), deviant behaviors -- the mother's boy, etc. The queer child is often described as a genius, gifted, and therefore perceptive to the ways in which he is culturally read and to the ways in which his childhood is different from a "normative" one. Through the works of Truman Capote, John Rechy, Paul Monette, and the Las Vegas entertainers Siegfried and Roy, varying processes of inscription are explored in a series of narratives that allow for a rethinking and re-articulation of the relationship between spatial configurations of home and the formation and performance of queer identity.; With "home" as a site of "mandatory and compulsory" heterosexuality within these narratives, the figuration of the child's relationship to rooms, to occupants of those rooms, and to the rules prescribed for behavior in them, also becomes the paradigm for adult negotiations through broader social spaces within dominant culture. |
| Keyword | American literature |
| Language | English |
| Part of collection | University of Southern California dissertations and theses |
| Publisher (of the original version) | University of Southern California |
| Place of publication (of the original version) | Los Angeles, California |
| Publisher (of the digital version) | University of Southern California. Libraries |
| Type | texts |
| Legacy record ID | usctheses-m222 |
| Rights | Bohn, Jeffrey L. |
| Repository name | Libraries, University of Southern California |
| Repository address | Los Angeles, California |
| Repository email | http://www.usc.edu/isd/libraries/services/ask_a_librarian/email/ |
| Filename | etd-Bohn-20061208 |
| Archival file | uscthesesreloadpub_Volume51/etd-Bohn-20061208.pdf |
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| Full text | WONDER BOYS: TALES OF THE EXTRAORDINARILY QUEER ADOLESCENT by Jeffrey L. Bohn A Dissertation Presented to the FACULTY OF THE GRADUATE SCHOOL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY (ENGLISH) December 2006 Copyright 2006 Jeffrey L. Bohn |
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