Queer sexualities in French and Francophone literature and film /
Queer sexualities in French and Francophone literature and film /
edited by James Day.
- 1 online resource (xix, 209 pages)
- French literature series ; v. 34 .
- French Literature Series 34. Literature and Cultural Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2007, ISBN: 9789004357969. .
Contains papers that originated as contributions to the annual French Literature Conference held in 2006 at the University of South Carolina, in Columbia, South Carolina.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Preliminary material / Sodomy, Allegory, and the Subject of Pleasure / Divergences et Queeriosités: Ovide moralisé ou les mutations d’“Iphis en garçon” (XIIe-XVIIIe) / A Modest Proposal for Queering the Past: A Queer Princess with a Space of Her Own? / Rousseau’s Queer Bottom: Sexual Difference in the Confessions / Mademoiselle de Maupin: Fluctuations identitaires et sexuelles / Gender Convergence in Sand’s La Mare au diable, a Contrasexual Reading / “Étrange n’est-ce pas?”: The Princesse Edmond de Polignac, Erik Satie’s Socrate, and a Lesbian Aesthetic of Music? / Outing Proust / The Anus of Tiresias: Sodomy, Alchemy, Metamorphosis / Queer Writing: Homoeroticism in Jean Genet’s Fiction / Nous sommes un fléau social: Cinéma, vidéo et luttes homosexuelles / Révélations Intimes: Vers une Cartographie Queer du Sud-Ouest / Stop the World, or What’s Queer about Michel Houellebecq? / Recto/Verso: Mapping the Contemporary Gay Novel / Editors Queer Sexualities in French and Francophone Literature and Film -- Michael A. Johnson -- Lise Leibacher-Ouvrard -- Pierre Zoberman -- Angela N. Hunter -- Guri Ellen Barstad -- James F. Hamilton -- Samuel N. Dorf -- Nathan Guss -- Ed Madden -- Elizabeth Stephens -- Hélène Fleckinger -- Philippe C. Dubois -- Douglas Morrey -- Lawrence R. Schehr.
Available to subscribing member institutions only.
The steady development of queer theory over the last two decades has provided useful analytical tools and the will to dismiss the watchdog of heteronormativity. Modes of reading have evolved, as this volume of FLS amply attests. Following Bill Edmiston’s introduction to the volume — a concise and informative history of queer theory — the fifteen articles reveal, not surprisingly, significant diversity. One deals with queerness in the context of medieval writing where allegorical and euphemistic expression were understood to be irreconcilable. Another treats translations in Early Modern France of an Ovidian fable that had an inconvenient lesbian dimension. Rousseau’s fixation on his bottom (e.g., for spankings) points to a queer streak, while Gautier’s Mademoiselle de Maupin enhances the theme of sexual misidentity with ornamental figures. The queerness of Sand’s La Mare au diable emerges in the course of a contrasexual reading. A musicologist investigates the possibility of a lesbian esthetics of music in a work by Erik Satie, while a literary scholar finds evidence of Proust’s “outing” in Jean Santeuil . Other articles address the sense of gender transformation wrought by sodomy, a revised view on the writing subject in Jean Genet’s fiction, the queerness of heterosexuality in the works of Michel Houellebecq, and recurring motifs in recent fiction produced by “gay Paris.” Two of the articles treat activism and esthetics in film.
Texts in English or French.
9789401204903
10.1163/9789401204903 DOI
French literature--History and criticism--Congresses.
Homosexuality and literature--France--Congresses.
Homosexuality in literature--Congresses.
Gays' writings, French--History and criticism--Congresses.
Homosexuality and motion pictures--France--Congresses.
Motion pictures, French--History and criticism--Congresses.
French literature.
Gays' writings, French.
Homosexuality and literature.
Homosexuality and motion pictures.
Homosexuality in literature.
Motion pictures, French.
France.
Conference papers and proceedings.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
PQ145.1.H66 / Q88 2007eb
840.9/353
Contains papers that originated as contributions to the annual French Literature Conference held in 2006 at the University of South Carolina, in Columbia, South Carolina.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Preliminary material / Sodomy, Allegory, and the Subject of Pleasure / Divergences et Queeriosités: Ovide moralisé ou les mutations d’“Iphis en garçon” (XIIe-XVIIIe) / A Modest Proposal for Queering the Past: A Queer Princess with a Space of Her Own? / Rousseau’s Queer Bottom: Sexual Difference in the Confessions / Mademoiselle de Maupin: Fluctuations identitaires et sexuelles / Gender Convergence in Sand’s La Mare au diable, a Contrasexual Reading / “Étrange n’est-ce pas?”: The Princesse Edmond de Polignac, Erik Satie’s Socrate, and a Lesbian Aesthetic of Music? / Outing Proust / The Anus of Tiresias: Sodomy, Alchemy, Metamorphosis / Queer Writing: Homoeroticism in Jean Genet’s Fiction / Nous sommes un fléau social: Cinéma, vidéo et luttes homosexuelles / Révélations Intimes: Vers une Cartographie Queer du Sud-Ouest / Stop the World, or What’s Queer about Michel Houellebecq? / Recto/Verso: Mapping the Contemporary Gay Novel / Editors Queer Sexualities in French and Francophone Literature and Film -- Michael A. Johnson -- Lise Leibacher-Ouvrard -- Pierre Zoberman -- Angela N. Hunter -- Guri Ellen Barstad -- James F. Hamilton -- Samuel N. Dorf -- Nathan Guss -- Ed Madden -- Elizabeth Stephens -- Hélène Fleckinger -- Philippe C. Dubois -- Douglas Morrey -- Lawrence R. Schehr.
Available to subscribing member institutions only.
The steady development of queer theory over the last two decades has provided useful analytical tools and the will to dismiss the watchdog of heteronormativity. Modes of reading have evolved, as this volume of FLS amply attests. Following Bill Edmiston’s introduction to the volume — a concise and informative history of queer theory — the fifteen articles reveal, not surprisingly, significant diversity. One deals with queerness in the context of medieval writing where allegorical and euphemistic expression were understood to be irreconcilable. Another treats translations in Early Modern France of an Ovidian fable that had an inconvenient lesbian dimension. Rousseau’s fixation on his bottom (e.g., for spankings) points to a queer streak, while Gautier’s Mademoiselle de Maupin enhances the theme of sexual misidentity with ornamental figures. The queerness of Sand’s La Mare au diable emerges in the course of a contrasexual reading. A musicologist investigates the possibility of a lesbian esthetics of music in a work by Erik Satie, while a literary scholar finds evidence of Proust’s “outing” in Jean Santeuil . Other articles address the sense of gender transformation wrought by sodomy, a revised view on the writing subject in Jean Genet’s fiction, the queerness of heterosexuality in the works of Michel Houellebecq, and recurring motifs in recent fiction produced by “gay Paris.” Two of the articles treat activism and esthetics in film.
Texts in English or French.
9789401204903
10.1163/9789401204903 DOI
French literature--History and criticism--Congresses.
Homosexuality and literature--France--Congresses.
Homosexuality in literature--Congresses.
Gays' writings, French--History and criticism--Congresses.
Homosexuality and motion pictures--France--Congresses.
Motion pictures, French--History and criticism--Congresses.
French literature.
Gays' writings, French.
Homosexuality and literature.
Homosexuality and motion pictures.
Homosexuality in literature.
Motion pictures, French.
France.
Conference papers and proceedings.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
PQ145.1.H66 / Q88 2007eb
840.9/353