Spades, actors and fags: fiction and/as Queer Theory in Timoty Findley's "Spadework"

• Autores: Pedro Carmona Rodríguez
• Localización: Proceedings from the 31st AEDEAN Conference: [electronic resource] / María Jesús Lorenzo Modia (ed. lit.), José Miguel Alonso Giráldez (ed. lit.), Mónica Amenedo Costa (ed. lit.), María J. Cabarcos-Traseira (ed. lit.), Begoña Lasa Álvarez (ed. lit.), 2008, ISBN 978-84-9749-278-2, págs. 151-159
• Idioma: inglés
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  • This paper analyses Timothy Findley's last novel, "Spadework" (2002 [2001]), to engage the relevance of Gender/Queer Theory as a visible intertext. As we read, it seems apparent that that Spadework provides a further turn of the screw to invigorate the gendermarked fiction/theory popular in Canadian writing. Issues of gender/sex performativity and performance, in several ways, populate the novel, which, as a whole, is a critique of identity very close to the one proposed by Queer Theory models, usually oriented to interrogate normativity and the identities that it produces.