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postgraduate thesis: Queering the Jewish exile : bildungsroman, proust, and temporality in André Aciman’s Call me by your name
Title | Queering the Jewish exile : bildungsroman, proust, and temporality in André Aciman’s Call me by your name |
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Issue Date | 2019 |
Publisher | The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong) |
Citation | Chan, Y. H. [陳宜康]. (2019). Queering the Jewish exile : bildungsroman, proust, and temporality in André Aciman’s Call me by your name. (Thesis). University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam, Hong Kong SAR. |
Abstract | This dissertation explores the queer representations of the exiled Jew in André
Aciman’s Call Me By Your Name. Although the film adaptation of the novel has been
enthusiastically embraced, I contend that it has suppressed the Jew and reduced it to a
mere story of summer romance between two young men. In an attempt to “bring back
the Jew”, this dissertation studies the intricate relationships between the queer subject
and the exiled Jew. It begins with the novel’s challenge to the Bildungsroman model
of becoming by subverting the child/adult binary and examines the notion of
pedophilia through a queer lens. It then investigates the novel’s linguistic
destabilization of the many social categories, including friends, family, and lovers.
Informed by Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick’s Epistemology of the Closet (1990), it also
contextualizes and analyzes the dynamics of the Jewish and queer closets in the novel.
It looks at the queer space within which silence and ambiguous language create
intimacy not despite, but rather because of, heterosexual oppression. Finally, I argue
that exilic time and queer time exist outside the logic of modernist temporality by
borrowing from José Esteban Muñoz’s theory of queer futurity and scrutinizing
Aciman’s adoption of Proustian temporizing and timeless aesthetics.
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Degree | Master of Arts |
Subject | Jews in literature Gays in literature |
Dept/Program | Literary and Cultural Studies |
Persistent Identifier | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/279878 |
DC Field | Value | Language |
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dc.contributor.author | Chan, Yee Hong | - |
dc.contributor.author | 陳宜康 | - |
dc.date.accessioned | 2019-12-11T06:48:23Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2019-12-11T06:48:23Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 2019 | - |
dc.identifier.citation | Chan, Y. H. [陳宜康]. (2019). Queering the Jewish exile : bildungsroman, proust, and temporality in André Aciman’s Call me by your name. (Thesis). University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam, Hong Kong SAR. | - |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/279878 | - |
dc.description.abstract | This dissertation explores the queer representations of the exiled Jew in André Aciman’s Call Me By Your Name. Although the film adaptation of the novel has been enthusiastically embraced, I contend that it has suppressed the Jew and reduced it to a mere story of summer romance between two young men. In an attempt to “bring back the Jew”, this dissertation studies the intricate relationships between the queer subject and the exiled Jew. It begins with the novel’s challenge to the Bildungsroman model of becoming by subverting the child/adult binary and examines the notion of pedophilia through a queer lens. It then investigates the novel’s linguistic destabilization of the many social categories, including friends, family, and lovers. Informed by Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick’s Epistemology of the Closet (1990), it also contextualizes and analyzes the dynamics of the Jewish and queer closets in the novel. It looks at the queer space within which silence and ambiguous language create intimacy not despite, but rather because of, heterosexual oppression. Finally, I argue that exilic time and queer time exist outside the logic of modernist temporality by borrowing from José Esteban Muñoz’s theory of queer futurity and scrutinizing Aciman’s adoption of Proustian temporizing and timeless aesthetics. | - |
dc.language | eng | - |
dc.publisher | The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong) | - |
dc.relation.ispartof | HKU Theses Online (HKUTO) | - |
dc.rights | The author retains all proprietary rights, (such as patent rights) and the right to use in future works. | - |
dc.rights | This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License. | - |
dc.subject.lcsh | Jews in literature | - |
dc.subject.lcsh | Gays in literature | - |
dc.title | Queering the Jewish exile : bildungsroman, proust, and temporality in André Aciman’s Call me by your name | - |
dc.type | PG_Thesis | - |
dc.description.thesisname | Master of Arts | - |
dc.description.thesislevel | Master | - |
dc.description.thesisdiscipline | Literary and Cultural Studies | - |
dc.description.nature | published_or_final_version | - |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.5353/th_991044166180603414 | - |
dc.date.hkucongregation | 2019 | - |
dc.identifier.mmsid | 991044166180603414 | - |