Subversion of Heterosexual Normativity in Smith’s Girl Meets Boy

Abstract

The present research explores the study of queer behavior of characters that „question‟ and „trouble‟ the dominant narrative of heterosexual bond and its gender biases in Ali Smith‟s Girl Meets Boy. Blurring heterosexual bond with idea of queerness, it analyses dichotomy of authoritative, fixed and oppressive meaning of heterosexual bond towards homo-social bond, with the plural, flexible, fluidity, and subversive meanings towards heterosexual bond. With enlightening and liberating force in the life of the two lovers, Anthea and Robin, that they can have their life of their own way with the freedom of physicality and sexuality by breaking the line of heterosexist society creates a conscious reaction to the negative and resigned view of lesbian love. The celebration of homosexuality through the revolutionary characters creates a new taste for the readers in the society both „questioning‟ and „troubling‟ the dominant narrative of heterosexuality. The successful portrayal of the sexual minorities, with the disproved myth about queer and their sexual behavior proves shifting notion of sexuality because of awareness of gender biasness with the light of sexuality as a social constructivism, it proves that the identity with which we are born would be the same to which we will take to the grave is not the same at all.