de Waal, Shaun André2006-02-102006-02-102006-02-10http://hdl.handle.net/10539/180Master of Arts - ArtsThis MA dissertation uses “queer theory” to read existing literary texts and to inform the riting of new fictional works. In the opening literary-critical essay, which functions as an ntroduction to queer theory, I give an overview of its development and conceptual formation, then go on to demonstrate how it may provide useful and fruitful readings of a writer such as William Burroughs. The central and longest section of this dissertation is a group of short fictions that engage with queer theory, using some of its insights to generate investigations of sexuality, power, social relations, and to inspire formal experiments in keeping with the spirit of queer theory. In conclusion, I look back upon this group of short fictional texts and link them to the issues raised in the essay on Burroughs and queer theory.27165 bytes83343 bytes147692 bytes108072 bytes403093 bytes132326 bytes62505 bytes168074 bytes347245 bytes43166 bytes42512 bytesapplication/pdfapplication/pdfapplication/pdfapplication/pdfapplication/pdfapplication/pdfapplication/pdfapplication/pdfapplication/pdfapplication/pdfapplication/pdfenqueerreadingwritinggendersexualitygaylesbianrusselburroughsliterarytheoryThesis