Heterosexist Presumption

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Heterosexist Presumption The Villa Seurat

• Questioning Queerings of the Censored Text

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The Durrell-Miller Letters 1935-80

• Ed. Ian MacNiven
• Replaces A Private Correspondence (1966)
• Selects only the literary letters

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Obelisk Press

• The Villa Seurat Series (1938)
• Miller Max and the White Phagocytes
• Durrell The Black Book
• Nin Winter of Artifice
• Published Tropic of Cancer (1934)

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Elizabeth Ladenson
Tropic of Cancer is a work that surely offers
the most impeccable straight male credentials
(144)
Im down on my knees behind Van Norden
tickling him in the rump This suddenly
brings to my mind, for the second time, the
remembrance of my dream of Van Nordens penis
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Michael Hardin

the colon as well as the anus represent a
Rabelaisian focus on the alimentary canal
although the colon is not the same as the anus,
its proximity and the breadth of meaning inherent
in Rabelasian images allow for readings which can
be related to food, excrement and sex. (144)
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The Black Book
He has discovered that he is a homosexual. After
examining his diary, having his horoscope cast,
his palm read, his prostate fingered, and the
bumps on his great bald cranium interpreted.
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The Black Book
From now on it is going to be different.
I am going to sleep with whom I want and not let
my conditioned self interfere with me. . . . I
am that I am, and all that kind of stuff (167)
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The Black Book
From now on it is going to be different.
I am going to sleep with whom I want and not let
my conditioned self interfere with me. . . . I
am that I am, and all that kind of stuff (167)
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Problems

• Queering and heterosexist presumption
• identity politics and the unstable ego
• Acts vs. identity

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