Making it Ours: Queering the Canon

accept activity actually appearance become behavior believe body character closet coming conceal condemned constructed create culture describes desire difference dominant earlier effect especially example experience face father fear feel female feminine force friends gender gives heterosexual hide homosexual identify identity imagine interpretation keep label later literary literature lives look lover male marks masculine mask means monster moral narrative narrator natural never novel object openly ourselves person physical play pleasure poem position protect queer question reader recognize relation remain result role scene secret seeks seems sexual shape shows silence social society sometimes sort soul space speak story straight subtext suggest surface tell textual threatens tion transgressive tries truth turns usually voice woman women writer young