Gender Literature
Gender literature covers a multitude of topics, but often focuses on love between same sex couples. Such love confounds the traditional idea of gender identity. Gender literature imitates life and in real life love between same sex couples is part of the ordinary world. Kabuki in a G-String brings gender literature to where writers and others have argued it should be: central to the lives of all of us. As Marianne LaFrance, Yale University Professor, says, "Now we're asking not just 'What causes homosexuality?' [but also] 'What causes heterosexuality?” and “Why is sexuality so central in some people's perspective?”
Kabuki in a G-String, by M.S. Simpson, has Chad Newsome, a man who left West Texas in his youth, decide whether to stay in Paris with his French Moroccan partner or return to West Texas. Gender means something different in Paris than in Lubbock, Texas. As Chad’s cousin Roberta Martin discovers in her quest to bring her cousin home, much of what she has been taught about gender dissolves amid the sophistication of Paris. Gender literature changes perceptions, as this novel does, but it promotes a strong view of gender as a complex and less easily categorized concept than people have often assumed. This novel places its characters in the middle of America’s ongoing culture wars as well as in a big city.
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