Queering The Great Gatsby: Nghi Vo’s The Chosen and the Beautiful
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Nghi Vo’s The Chosen and the Beautiful (2021) is a critical queer adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby (1925). Rather than criticizing and overwriting Fitzgerald’s text, Vo draws out its subtle queerness. In doing so, her adaptation extends an overlooked aspect of The Great Gatsby: its anti-heteronormativity. Specifically, Vo critiques the workings of heteronormative culture through the eyes of Jordan, whose insider-yet-outsider status as an ethnic minority who is also passing as a heterosexual woman offers her a unique vantage point from which to observe how her world functions. From this standpoint, Jordan reports how Gatsby and Daisy’s privileging of heterosexuality renders them monstrous; to become the perfect heterosexual couple, the man and woman use and hurt others without remorse.
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Nghi Vo’s The Chosen and the Beautiful (2021) is a critical queer adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby (1925). Rather than criticizing and overwriting Fitzgerald’s text, Vo draws out its subtle queerness. In doing so, her adaptation extends an overlooked aspect of The Great Gatsby: its anti-heteronormativity. Specifically, Vo critiques the workings of heteronormative culture through the eyes of Jordan, whose insider-yet-outsider status as an ethnic minority who is also passing as a heterosexual woman offers her a unique vantage point from which to observe how her world functions. From this standpoint, Jordan reports how Gatsby and Daisy’s privileging of heterosexuality renders them monstrous; to become the perfect heterosexual couple, the man and woman use and hurt others without remorse.
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