Abstract (eng)
This master's thesis examines the consequences of emphasizing or suppressing bisexuality in a selection of Norwegian research articles and literary texts. The effects on negotiation and knowledge processes with regard to sexuality and gender concepts in research and literature constitutes the main focus of this thesis. The starting point of the analysis is the observation based on historical and theoretical considerations that queer theoretical approaches, both research- and literature-related, usually do not include bisexuality in their conceptualizations, which is why approaches derived from bisexual theory are suitable for critical questioning. The terms bisexual (in)visibility and (in)visibilization, as well as monosexual assumption are introduced. For the purpose of examining three selected Norwegian queer research articles from 2008, as well as three Norwegian novels published between 2012 and 2018, new methods are being devised, i.e. the ‘opposition-dissolving approach’ and the method of ‘active bisexual reading’ in combination with a contrastive monosexual reading. While the elision of bisexuality in both areas of the analysis shows similar norm-stabilizing effects with regard to heteronormativity and binary gender concepts, the results differ when bisexuality is emphasized. The examined research articles tended to show stereotypical depictions of bisexuality, whereas in the case of bisexual visualization in literary reception processes, a potential for raising awareness for monosexual biases could be determined.