Date of Award
Fall 11-16-2011
Degree Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Arts (MA)
Department
Communication
First Advisor
Ted Friedman
Second Advisor
Jim Roberts
Third Advisor
Kathy Fuller-Seeley
Abstract
This thesis is a queer analysis of two graphic novels by writer Alan Moore: The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen series (art by Kevin O’Neill, 1999-Present) and Lost Girls (art by Melinda Gebbie, 1992-3). These two works re-contextualize familiar characters such as Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Mina Murray, and Alice to uncover both the liberating desires and the sexist, homophobic, and imperialistic anxieties underlining historically popular fiction. Focusing on three characters utilized in Moore’s work, this thesis argues that the ideological associations with those chosen characters and the reconstructions of queerness in their narratives offer contemporary subjects resistance to limiting cultural tendencies and create an alternative space that call attention to phobic societal constructs. Both Lost Girls and the League series redefine discursively constituted identities and offer the potential to re-write normative codes of sex and sexuality.
DOI
https://doi.org/10.57709/2370550
Recommended Citation
Besozzi, Michael T., ""To Blaze Forever in a Blazing World": Queer Reconstruction and Cultural Memory in the Works of Alan Moore." Thesis, Georgia State University, 2011.
doi: https://doi.org/10.57709/2370550