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This article is a study of marginal discourses in W.S. Burroughs's second novel, Queer. Whereas t... more This article is a study of marginal discourses in W.S. Burroughs's second novel, Queer. Whereas the place of Queer within queer literary theory has been questioned by Burroughsian scholars, we suggest that the novel can be partially studied within the frame of queer theory. Social notion of " undesirables " represented by the narrator and a circle of American ex-pats who flee to Mexico from restrictive laws of the US, brings up aspects of sexuality that are considered " abnormal " and therefore " queer " by the Cold War era political discourse. Paradoxically, though, interpersonal relationships between the narrator and his young lover Eugene Allerton transgresses the frame of queer theory to explicate general economics of control, order and a hidden desire for disintegration displayed in every discursive aspect of Queer, leading to the narrator's identity collapse and the novel's gradual loss of linearity.

This article is a study of marginal discourses in W.S. Burroughs's second novel, Queer. Whereas t... more This article is a study of marginal discourses in W.S. Burroughs's second novel, Queer. Whereas the place of Queer within queer literary theory has been questioned by Burroughsian scholars, we suggest that the novel can be partially studied within the frame of queer theory. Social notion of " undesirables " represented by the narrator and a circle of American ex-pats who flee to Mexico from restrictive laws of the US, brings up aspects of sexuality that are considered " abnormal " and therefore " queer " by the Cold War era political discourse. Paradoxically, though, interpersonal relationships between the narrator and his young lover Eugene Allerton transgresses the frame of queer theory to explicate general economics of control, order and a hidden desire for disintegration displayed in every discursive aspect of Queer, leading to the narrator's identity collapse and the novel's gradual loss of linearity.

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