Published Online:September 2025
Product Name:The IUP Journal of English Studies
Product Type:Article
Product Code:IJES030925
DOI:10.71329/IUPJES/2025.20.3.27-35
Author Name:Manshi Yadav and Palak Arora
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Subject/Domain:Arts and Humanities
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Pages:27-35
This paper explores ‘Queer Sexuality’ as depicted in Aciman’s Call Me by Your Name through ecological imagery. Further, it investigates how nature and natural imagery inform the novel’s course of action and contribute to the normalization of male sexualization by another man. The paper also attempts a textual analysis of sublime hints of exclusive gay identity construction in the novel, using Earl Jackson’s Strategies of Deviance: Studies in Gay Male Representation as the basis. Elio’s narration of his relationship with Oliver in Call Me by Your Name raises the question: “Is Elio’s sexual desire preoccupied with Oliver or with men in general?”
Sexuality has been a debatable topic since antiquity. Plato started the debate in his Symposium, where several philosophers started their discussion on the praises and types of love. Aristophanes