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Willem Finn Harling
“Pederasty’s Potential and the Problem of the Pedophile: Fantasy, Fetishism, and Fungibility in Hanya Yanagihara’s The People in the Trees”
Faculty Advisor: Kris Trujillo
Willem (Will) Harling’s thesis is a close reading of a 2013 novel that puts forward an important theory of pederastic power dynamics and suggests that the metaphorics of pederasty render sexual violence as inseparable from colonial and ecological violence.
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