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Università Degli Studi Di Bergamo Roaming The UNIVERSITÀ DEGLI STUDI DI BERGAMO Scuola di Dottorato in Scienze Letterarie Dottorato in Letterature Euro-americane ROAMING THE GREENWOOD Identà gay nella narrativa statunitense dopo Stonewall Referente: Chiar.mo Prof. Mario Corona Tesi di Dottorato di Stefano ASPERTI Matricola n. 700194 XXI ciclo Alla mia famiglia, che c’è sempre. A tutti coloro che hanno lottato e a quelli che non ce l’hanno fatta. Whose woods these are I think I know. His house is in the village though; He will not see me stopping here To watch his woods fill up with snow. My little horse must think it queer To stop without a farmhouse near Between the woods and frozen lake The darkest evening of the year. He gives his harness bells a shake To ask if there is some mistake. The only other sound’s the sweep Of easy wind and downy flake. The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, And miles to go before I sleep, And miles to go before I sleep. (Robert Frost, Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening, 1923) We cannot live without our lives. (Barbara Deming, We Cannot Live Without Our Lives, 1974) 3 Indice PREMESSA................................................................................................................................. 6 CAPITOLO 1. INTRODUZIONE STORICA E TEORICA ................................................ 11 1. L’INVENZIONE DELL’OMOSESSUALITÀ ............................................................................... 11 2. GLI STUDI GAY .................................................................................................................... 18 3. QUEER THEORY................................................................................................................... 22 4. LA TEORIA E LA TRADIZIONE DELLA LETTERATURA GAY................................................... 25 4.1 La questione del canone ............................................................................................... 25 4.2 Gli interrogativi degli studi letterari gay ..................................................................... 27 4.3 Il discorso omosessuale................................................................................................ 28 4.4 Omosessualità ed etnicità............................................................................................. 30 4.5 Gli studi letterari gay e la queer theory ....................................................................... 31 5. BREVE PROFILO DELLA NARRATIVA GAY DA STONEWALL A OGGI..................................... 33 5.1 L’emergere di una letteratura gay mainstream............................................................ 36 5.2 Il “Violet Quill” ...........................................................................................................37 5.3 Il “New Narrative Movement”..................................................................................... 40 5.4 Le generazioni più recenti ............................................................................................ 41 CAPITOLO 2. DANCER FROM THE DANCE ..................................................................... 43 1. UNA CARRIERA NELL’AMORE ............................................................................................. 43 2. TRIANGOLAZIONI. DANCER FROM THE DANCE, FAGGOTS E THE GREAT GATSBY ............ 46 3. UN GHETTO TUTTO PER SÉ................................................................................................... 49 4. LETTERATURA E IDENTITÀ.................................................................................................. 54 5. LA SCOPERTA DELL’IDENTITÀ GAY..................................................................................... 61 6. IDENTITÀ E COMUNITÀ........................................................................................................ 68 6.1 Un’occupazione a tempo pieno .................................................................................... 68 6.2 Come una città sulla collina......................................................................................... 71 6.3 Una fantasia mitopoietica di lucciole fornicatrici........................................................ 73 6.4 Una strana democrazia ................................................................................................ 80 7. UNA RELIGIONE MASSIMALISTA E INTRANSIGENTE ............................................................ 87 8. RAPSODIA BOHÉMIENNE ..................................................................................................... 91 9. DANCER FROM THE DANCE COME ROMANZO DI FORMAZIONE........................................... 94 10. “DON’T TAKE IT SO SERIOUSLY!” L’UMORISMO CAMP IN DANCER FROM THE DANCE .... 99 11. AMORE E MORTE A FIRE ISLAND..................................................................................... 102 12. UN ORRORE DI LIBERTÀ .................................................................................................. 104 CAPITOLO 3. THE LOST LANGUAGE OF CRANES ....................................................... 107 1. DA GAY A QUEER. LA NARRATIVA DI DAVID LEAVITT..................................................... 107 2. OMOSESSUALITÀ E STEREOTIPIZZAZIONE......................................................................... 112 3. IL COMING OUT E IL DISCORSO DEL CLOSET...................................................................... 116 3.1 Le lingue perdute........................................................................................................ 124 4. DAVID LEAVITT E LA FAMIGLIA AMERICANA ................................................................... 127 4.1 Madri e figli................................................................................................................ 132 4.2 Padri e figli................................................................................................................. 134 4.3 Miti delle origini......................................................................................................... 136 5. LA FINE DEL CAMP ............................................................................................................ 137 6. QUESTI AMORI COSÌ UGUALI... .......................................................................................... 140 4 CAPITOLO 4. IL GEORGE MILES CYCLE DI DENNIS COOPER................................ 143 1. VERSO IL QUEER................................................................................................................ 143 1.1 Il caso di The Lure di Felice Picano .......................................................................... 144 1.2 La scrittura dei New Queer Writers ........................................................................... 146 2. LA NARRATIVA MALEDETTA DI DENNIS COOPER ............................................................. 147 2.1 Frisk: un ritratto dell’artista da giovane pervertito................................................... 149 2.2 Rapporti umani tra fantasia e realtà .......................................................................... 150 3. QUEERING IDENTITY ......................................................................................................... 152 3.1 Fiabe mutanti.............................................................................................................. 154 3.2 Una poetica dell’analità............................................................................................. 156 3.3 Cooper – De Sade: un paragone imperfetto............................................................... 160 3.4 Un’identità fluida e indefinibile ................................................................................. 161 3.5. Scusa se lo chiamo amore ......................................................................................... 165 3.6 Critiche alla scrittura di Cooper................................................................................ 166 4. CORPI A PEZZI.................................................................................................................... 167 5. IL PALAZZO DELL’ARTE..................................................................................................... 171 5.1 Un’arte illusoria e seduttiva....................................................................................... 172 5.2 Period: testo, metatesto, paratesto............................................................................. 175 CAPITOLO 5. ROAMING THE GREENWOOD: LA RICERCA DI UNO SPAZIO GAY POSITIVO ..................................................................................................................... 179 1. UN LUOGO DOVE ESSERE GAY........................................................................................... 179 2. L’ISOLA DI FIRE ISLAND.................................................................................................... 185 3. ARCADIA E IMMAGINARIO OMOSESSUALE ........................................................................ 189 3.1 Un territorio disabitato e inesplorato ........................................................................ 194 3.2 I misteri di Brokeback Mountain................................................................................ 199 4. ROAMING THE GREENWOOD ............................................................................................. 201 4.1 Il rito di iniziazione e la foresta fiabesca ................................................................... 205 4.2 Boschi
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