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Besozzi, Michael T. "“To Blaze Forever in a Blazing World”: Queer Reconstruction and Cultural Memory in the Works of Alan Moore." Thesis Master of Arts. Georgia State University, 2011. Added by: joachim (11/19/12, 8:19 PM) |
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| Resource type: Thesis/Dissertation Language: en: English BibTeX citation key: Besozzi2011 Email resource to friend View all bibliographic details  |
Categories: General Keywords: "Lost Girls", "The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen", Gebbie. Melinda, Gender, Memoria, Moore. Alan, O’Neill. Kevin, United Kingdom Creators: Besozzi Publisher: Georgia State University (Atlanta) |
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This thesis is a queer analysis of two graphic novels by writer Alan Moore: The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen series (art by Kevin O’Neill, 1999–Present) and Lost Girls (art by Melinda Gebbie, 1992–3). These two works re-contextualize familiar characters such as Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Mina Murray, and Alice to uncover both the liberating desires and the sexist, homophobic, and imperialistic anxieties underlining historically popular fiction. Focusing on three characters utilized in Moore’s work, this thesis argues that the ideological associations with those chosen characters and the reconstructions of queerness in their narratives offer contemporary subjects resistance to limiting cultural tendencies and create an alternative space that call attention to phobic societal constructs. Both Lost Girls and the League series redefine discursively constituted identities and offer the potential to re-write normative codes of sex and sexuality.
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