LANGUAGE IN INDIA

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Volume 12 : 10 October 2012
ISSN 1930-2940

Managing Editor: M. S. Thirumalai, Ph.D.
Editors: B. Mallikarjun, Ph.D.
         Sam Mohanlal, Ph.D.
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         Jennifer Marie Bayer, Ph.D.
         S. M. Ravichandran, Ph.D.
         G. Baskaran, Ph.D.
         L. Ramamoorthy, Ph.D.
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A Study of Gore Vidal’s The City and the Pillar
Sexual Orientation and Personal Agony

G. Dhanavel, M.A., M.Phil.

Gore Vidal was born in 1925. He was an American novelist, essayist, short story writer, screen play writer and critic. He died in June 2012. The world which Vidal sees in his novels revolves around love, sex, war, politics, religion, myth, homosexuality and heterosexuality. He also wrote social, political, economic and historical novels.

The City and the Pillar

The novel taken for the present study is Gore Vidal’s The City and the Pillar. The novel deals with two young men’s homosexual life in the American society. The two young men, Bob and Jim love each other deeply and are homosexuals.

Robert J. Corber in his article “Gore Vidal and the Erotics of Masculinity” says:

Vidal’s novel shows that, although gay male subjectivity is constituted differently from straight female subjectivity, gay men, like straight women, nevertheless have a stake in dismantling the discourses and institutions that regulate the production of gender (50).

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G. Dhanavel, M.A., M.Phil.
Assistant Professor of English
Karpaga Vinayaga College of Engineering and Technology
Affiliated to Anna University, Chennai
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