Self-Shattering in a Queerer Mirror: Gaze and Gay Selfhood in Pier Vittorio Tondelli

Gary P. Cestaro

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Italian Literature and Culture Gender and Feminist Studies Literary Theory and Cultural Hermeneutics

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This essay provides a queer theoretical reading of the works of Italian novelist Pier Vittorio Tondelli, who died from AIDS at age 36 in 1991. Drawing on theorists such as Leo Bersani and Lee Edelman, the essay affirms the centrality of queer desire in Tondelli's work as a means of reimagining human selfhood and a challenge to the oppressive and sometimes violent modes of conventional (male) subjectivity. As such, the essay aims to rebut recent Italian critics who have attempted to marginalize gay identity in Tondelli's writing.

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