He is constantly on the border of structures and categories, diluting and blurring the lines of power. From his decentralised position in society, Heathcliff can draw other characters, as well as the reader, away from a homogenous way of thinking. He is essentially the deviant Other, a body whose radical aberrations work to reveal the limits of what is considered as acceptably human. Due to the exclusory politics performed against him, Heathcliff is refused an identity and firmly positioned on the fringe of society, where he must exist as the foreign monster. Heathcliff as the Gothic figure fits into recent studies on monsters that present them as telling products of their time. Attributing Heathcliff with foreign features, the novel marks him as the ethnic outcast, disallowed entry into the homogeneous space of British tradition. Reflecting the menace of alien identities that threaten the dominant social order, Brontë’s novel subverts preconditioned understandings of cultural difference and challenges rigid categorisations of the racial ‘Other’. Nevertheless, some fan actions and interactions are part of an original queer protest response to societies that oppress and subjugate.
Their melodramatic reading, the cultural component that defines them, causes some of the references to be lost from sight and in such cases the emotional prevails. The difficulty is that these fans xenites are not always conscious of the homophobia that they are permanently exposed to, and this situation has to do with the social context that they are immersed in. It is because of this that Xena will never be out of the closet, since she has never actually been in it. All of these factors serve to illustrate that the gender performance of Xena is lesbian and the performative character of gender is hidden within the patriarchal domination, socially reinforced and accepted in a hetero-hegemonic/sexist, homophobic and discriminatory culture. At the same time, I include the internal and external discourse (from those “in the know”) over the Production of the program. The conflicts raised by its protagonists in the American series serve us in exploring the impact of a subtextual interpretation, and of a creative production from the latino fan communities within those of Xenaverse on the Internet. Abstract English: Xena: Warrior Princess - out of the Closet? A Melodramatic Response to the Show by Latin American and Spanish Lesbian & Gay Fans The research makes an analysis of the melodramatic interpretation of Xena: Warrior Princess (1995-2001) by latino gay and lesbian fans and of the obstacles that it brings about.
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