Prospectus for first up all night grad paper
Big--Silence is a girl in a boy's body, who is called queer by the queen for not going on her sexual advances
--binary opposition here--she is a woman, but because she acts like a knight, she is assumed to be a man, no, not binary opposition, objectification. . .no, not that. . .refers to Derrida's information on the built-in errors of language, look in Queer Theory, Gender Theory, page 37 (Silence is thought to be a man, but because she does not do "manly" things, we see the structure of gender start to collapse, it is regained in the end when she marries the king, similar to the WNBA analogy Wilchins gives on page 37
Focus of paper: the use of language to validate Silence as a man
--binary opposition here--she is a woman, but because she acts like a knight, she is assumed to be a man, no, not binary opposition, objectification. . .no, not that. . .refers to Derrida's information on the built-in errors of language, look in Queer Theory, Gender Theory, page 37 (Silence is thought to be a man, but because she does not do "manly" things, we see the structure of gender start to collapse, it is regained in the end when she marries the king, similar to the WNBA analogy Wilchins gives on page 37
Focus of paper: the use of language to validate Silence as a man