Roof's ambitious, wide-ranging book links narrative theory,
theories of sexuality, and gay and lesbian theory to explore the
place of homosexuality, and specifically the lesbian, in the
tradition of western narrative. According to Freud, perversions are
the necessary obstacles in a heroic plot of normal heterosexual
development; and homosexuality is the nineteenth century's classic
case of perversion. Roof builds on Freud to illustrate that a
structural understanding of narrative enforces a heterosexual
paradigm, a sense of meaning that provides psychological stability
for the reader. Looking at film, television, and lesbian novels,
Roof explores how ideas of narrative and sexuality inform,
determine, and reproduce one another. She identifies the
paradigmatic lesbian story, its unvarying repetition, and how it
might be recast. Understanding identification as a narrative
practice, and narrative as typically heterosexual and reproductive,
Roof shows how sexuality and narrative must be disentangled to
alter oppressive social practices. "Come As You Are" marks a
significant contribution to lesbian and gay studies, psychoanalytic
theory, and feminism.
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