From Radclyffe Hall???s A Well of Loneliness (1928) to Leslie Feinberg???s Stone Butch Blues (1993), the lives of genderqueer people have been increasingly expressed through novels. This is a genre well suited for showing personal development, often through the form of a bildungsroman and first-person narration. Analyzing twentieth-century genderqueer narratives allows for a tracing of how these queer experiences form a specifically genderqueer narrative through the deconstruction of normative structures of both narrative techniques and content. Using two emblematic genderqueer narratives, The Well of Loneliness and Stone Butch Blues, this thesis traces how genderqueer characters are represented across the twentieth-century, toward a more hopeful future.
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