Cross-sexing the River and Messing with Order: A Queer Reading of Caryl Phillipsâs In the Falling Snow

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A Queer Reading of Caryl Phillipsâs In the Falling Snow

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Pages:: 186â206

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004545557_011

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Although Caryl Phillipsâs In the Falling Snow (2009) does not explicitly present nonheterosexual and noncisgender characters, this chapter proposes a reading of the novel through a queer lens. In light of Cathy J. Cohenâs broadened understanding of queerness, the adopted approach addresses the ways in which the novel discusses the complex connections between the categories of gender, race, and sexuality, and reveals how white supremacy and heteronormativity are imbricated with one another. More specifically, the chapter explores the ways in which Phillipsâs characters trouble binary dichotomies and normalised identity categories, but also take part in the re-enactment of oppressive norms. In the Falling Snow implicitly reflects queerness through its aesthetics and themes, and offers a glimpse at the latent, potential coalitional alliances that can only be visible from a multidimensional and fluid position.

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Caryl Phillipsâs Genealogies

Series:Â Cross/Cultures, Volume: 220

E-Book ISBN:: 9789004545557

Publisher:: Brill

Print Publication Date:: 06 May 2023

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Part 1 Parallel Genealogies

Part 2 Intellectual Genealogies

Part 3 Gender

Part 4 Cinema and Radio Plays

Part 5 Short Texts

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A Queer Reading of Caryl Phillipsâs In the Falling Snow

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