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