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dc.contributor.authorBurke, Christopher J. F.en_NZ
dc.date.accessioned2007-03-01T11:40:03Z
dc.date.available2007-08-03T14:22:45Z
dc.date.issued2007en_NZ
dc.identifier.citationBurke, C. J. F. (2007). Diversity or Perversity? Investigating Queer Narratives, Resistance, and Representation in Aotearoa / New Zealand, 1948-2000 (Thesis, Master of Arts (MA)). The University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand. Retrieved from https://hdl.handle.net/10289/2245en
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10289/2245
dc.description.abstractThis thesis contributes to the burgeoning field of the history of sexuality in New Zealand and seeks to distill the more theorised and reflexive understanding of the subjectively understood queer male identity since 1948. Emerging from the disciplines of History and English, this project draws from a range of narratological materials: parliamentary debates contained in Hansard, and novels and short stories written by men with publicly avowed queer identities. This thesis explores how both 'normative' identity and the category of 'the homosexual' were constructed and mobilised in the public domain, in this case, the House of Representatives. It shows that members of the House have engaged with an extensive tradition of defining and excluding; a process by which state and public discourses have constructed largely unified, negative and othering narratives of 'the homosexual'. This constitutes an overarching narrative of queer experience which, until the mid-1990s, excluded queer subjects from its construction. At the same time, fictional narratives offer an adjacent body of knowledge and thought for queer men and women. This thesis posits literature's position as an important and productive space for queer resistance and critique. Such texts typically engage with and subvert 'dominant' or 'normative' understandings of sexuality and disturb efforts to apprehend precise or linear histories of 'gay liberation' and 'gay consciousness'. Drawing from the works of Frank Sargeson, James Courage, Bill Pearson, Noel Virtue, Stevan Eldred-Grigg, and Peter Wells, this thesis argues for a revaluing of fictional narratives as active texts from which historians can construct a matrix of cultural experience, while allowing for, and explaining, the determining role such narratives play in the discursively constructed understandings of gender and sexuality in New Zealand.en_NZ
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dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherThe University of Waikatoen_NZ
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dc.subjectqueeren_NZ
dc.subjecthomosexualen_NZ
dc.subjecthomosexualityen_NZ
dc.subjectgayen_NZ
dc.subjectqueer theoryen_NZ
dc.subjectcultural historyen_NZ
dc.subjectfictionen_NZ
dc.subjectliteratureen_NZ
dc.subjectnovelsen_NZ
dc.subjectnarrativeen_NZ
dc.subjectparliamentary debatesen_NZ
dc.subjectHansarden_NZ
dc.subjectHouse of Representativesen_NZ
dc.subjectFrank Sargesonen_NZ
dc.subjectJames Courageen_NZ
dc.subjectBill Pearsonen_NZ
dc.subjectNoel Virtueen_NZ
dc.subjectStevan Eldred-Griggen_NZ
dc.subjectPeter Wellsen_NZ
dc.subjectpoliticiansen_NZ
dc.subjectmembers of parliamenten_NZ
dc.subjectNew Zealanden_NZ
dc.subjectAotearoaen_NZ
dc.titleDiversity or Perversity? Investigating Queer Narratives, Resistance, and Representation in Aotearoa / New Zealand, 1948-2000en_NZ
dc.typeThesisen_NZ
thesis.degree.disciplineHistoryen_NZ
thesis.degree.grantorUniversity of Waikatoen_NZ
thesis.degree.levelMasters
thesis.degree.nameMaster of Arts (MA)en_NZ
uow.date.accession2007-03-01T11:40:03Zen_NZ
uow.date.available2007-08-03T14:22:45Zen_NZ
uow.identifier.adthttp://adt.waikato.ac.nz/public/adt-uow20070301.114003en_NZ
uow.date.migrated2009-06-09T23:30:32Zen_NZ
pubs.place-of-publicationHamilton, New Zealanden_NZ


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