Publication at Faculty of Arts |
2016
Abstract
This paper analyzes Hori Tatsuo's short story Moyuru hō (Les Joues en Feu), focusing on how the author dealt with the topic of male homosexuality in the story. First I give a brief overview of history of stories dealing with the same topic, emphasizing the transition of the focus from iro to ai, and I proceed to introduce Hori and his works.
Then I provide a close reading of the story, concentrating on its plot, characters and language. In my analysis, I use the findings of queer theory to find "queer elements" in the story (i.e. places where the binary oppositions of gender and sexuality are blurred) and concepts such as marginalization developed by G.
Pflugfelder.