Queer intersubjective processes in David Leavitt’s The Lost Language of Cranes

Abstract

Written in the 1980’s in the USA and dealing with sexual taboos, the novel chosen has received unanimous international praise. The present research work analyzes the construction of identity and recognition as a process that goes on only when in relationship with others and the impact of the queer political agenda in the80’s on the intersubjective processes constructed between LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexuals, trans) characters in David Leavitt’s The Lost Language of Cranes. Besides, we shall concentrate on how his novel brings to light the cultural world of homosexuality to communicate an ideological and artistic view of societies in which LGBT individuals permanently strive for social recognition.