Representation of the Queer in Adrienne Rich’s poems: Reading the Narratives of Resistance and Destabilization of the ‘Normalised’ Literary Apparatus
Abstract The objective of this paper is to unbiasedly and unabashedly locate among the large corpus of any genre of literature, which is historically, culturally and commercially not a very reliable medium for resistant discourses and alternative life-practices of the queer people because of the suspect bourgeois, capitalist, patriarchal, phallic-ideological, hegemonic, heteronormative, scopophilic, voyeuristic and “mass cultural” motor of the literary forms and practices, the representation of the queer in the poems of Adrienne Rich, a pioneering feminist who is credited with bringing the idea of lesbianism in the poetry world. In Gender Studies, the term “gender” is used to refer and limit only to the social and cultural constructions of masculinity and femininity. Gender is prescribed just like a script and everyone has to perform certain roles following the script. Any avoidance of or deviation from particular gender norms is immediately considered an anomaly and the suppos...