![]() ![]() I involve, moreover, theoriesīy Joan Rivière, René Girard, Eve Sedgwick, and Judith Butler. In contrast to earlier studies which interpret Schwarzenbach's texts biographically, I seek to use Diamond’s contemporary model indebted to queer studies. In the end of the novel, the main protagonist forms a queer family together with other characters who do not fit into cultural gender norms. The dichotomy between male and female becomes ever more instable, just as the labels hetero–, homo– and bisexual fall apart. Genders as well as homo– and hetero–sexual orientations, thereby exceeding culturally fixed borders. Schwarzenbach’s characters can thus be called “multi–sexual” as they meld both Novel Flucht nach oben (1933), in which the dichotomy of male and female is proven invalid, gender role models become obsolete, leading to the protagonist's deep uncertainty about his identity. ![]() Schwarzenbach's texts are populated by feminine men and masculine women, a genderswitching that can be interpreted as breaking apart the categories of gender and sexuality. She thereby, already in the 1930s, imagined something akin to the recent investigative work by Lisa Diamond on gender and sexual fluidity. ![]() The Swiss author Annemarie Schwarzenbach created literary figures that resist beingĬlassified according to a gender binary and heterosexual norm. ![]()
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