Queer couples in straight America: a study of representations of straight woman/gay man relationships in A home at the end of the world and Will & Grace

• Autor(a) principal: Sandoval, Tatiana Moura
• Data de Publicação: 2009
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da UERJ
• Texto Completo: http://www.bdtd.uerj.br/handle/1/6767
• topic: North American Fiction; Queer Theory; Television; Cunningham, Michael, 1952- . A home at the end of the world; Cunningham, Michael, 1952- . Personagens Mulheres; Teoria queer; Will & Grace (Programa de televisão : Estados Unidos); Televisão Seriados; Ficção norte-americana; Teoria Queer; Televisão; CNPQ::LINGUISTICA, LETRAS E ARTES::LETRAS::LITERATURAS ESTRANGEIRAS MODERNAS

The purpose of this work is to study the queerness of relationships between straight women and gay men in Michael Cunningham s novel A Home at the End of the World and in the TV sitcom Will & Grace. The intention is to analyze such relationships from the point-of-view of the main female characters Clare and Grace, respectively , comparing and contrasting the literary and televisual texts. The theoretical-methodological core of this thesis lies on the concepts of queer theory, based on which the characters and their relationships have been analyzed. However, as it establishes a dialog between a literary work and a TV show, a theoretical chapter on television theory has been added. While providing an overview of television theory, this chapter has also been really relevant in the discussion of Will & Grace. Through a deeper study of queer theory, one realizes that queerness, instead of a fixed identity, may be better understood as an attitude of resistance to heteropatriarchal social rules. Therefore, in spite of Grace s and Clare s conventional aspirations, they both act queerly in several situations, proving that queerness is a positionality which everyone may assume; even straight people