@article {Wolf247, author = {Benedikt Wolf}, title = {Cruising, Travelling, Marching toward the Center: The Spatial Parameters of Male Homosexuality in Felix Rexhausen{\textquoteright}s Novels of the 1960s}, volume = {112}, number = {2}, pages = {247--273}, year = {2020}, doi = {10.3368/m.112.2.247}, publisher = {University of Wisconsin Press}, abstract = {Starting from discussions about the role of space in the history of male homosexuality and in LGBT identity formation, this article investigates patterns of space and movement in three gay-themed novels that Felix Rexhausen, a pioneer of gay literature and journalism in West Germany, wrote and/or published in the 1960s. The readings of the novels show that the centripetal movement from the province to the metropolis that might appear fundamental to what Jack Halberstam has labeled {\textquotedblleft}metronormativity{\textquotedblright} is neither dominant nor normative in these narratives. Rather, Rexhausen{\textquoteright}s novels intertwine different models of spatiality in a complex and artful manner that can be fully grasped only by analyzing the relationship of narrative space and the spatial extension of the text. (BW)}, issn = {0026-9271}, URL = {https://mon.uwpress.org/content/112/2/247}, eprint = {https://mon.uwpress.org/content/112/2/247.full.pdf}, journal = {Monatshefte} }