![]() ![]() ![]() Key Words: Trans-corperality, body, nature, heteronormativity, civilization. Homosexuality is seen as an attack on the ideal classifications of the patriarchal ideology and heteronormative qualities. The reason for being stuck in the closet is related to the fact that gay people are accepted as “ ‘foreigners’ in their own culture and are reminded of this fact at every opportunity” (Jay&Young, 1992, p.21). Hence it stands for their free queer space as an opposition to the socially constructed traditional gender roles while civilization stands for their forced heterosexual space and idea of being stuck in the closet. Until recently, Proulx was perhaps best known as the Pulitzer Prizewinning author of The Shipping News (1993), a novel (and later a film) that centers on a man. Nature presents an egalitarian attitude destroying all restrictions, definitions, distinctions and classifications. It focuses upon two powers in the lives of people nature versus civilization. This study intends to discuss and refer to homosexual concepts by taking the nature as a primary concept in order to shed light both on the characters’ love affair in nature and their alienated selves in civilization. Brokeback Mountain, written by Annie Proulx, depicts the lives of two gay men Ennis and Jack. Annie Proulx is an acclaimed author of award-winning and best-selling novels and short story collections, including The Shipping News, Postcards, and Brokeback Mountain, was honored with the Foundations Distinguished Contribution to American Letters in 2017 for her exceptional work and significant impact on American literature. ![]()
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