Queer sexualities in French and Francophone literature and film / edited by James Day.

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 in...

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Superior document:French literature series ; v. 34
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Year of Publication:2007
Language:English
Series:French literature series ; v. 34.
Physical Description:1 online resource (230 p.)
Notes: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.
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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary material / Editors Queer Sexualities in French and Francophone Literature and Film
  • Sodomy, Allegory, and the Subject of Pleasure / Michael A. Johnson
  • Divergences et Queeriosités: Ovide moralisé ou les mutations d’“Iphis en garçon” (XIIe-XVIIIe) / Lise Leibacher-Ouvrard
  • A Modest Proposal for Queering the Past: A Queer Princess with a Space of Her Own? / Pierre Zoberman
  • Rousseau’s Queer Bottom: Sexual Difference in the Confessions / Angela N. Hunter
  • Mademoiselle de Maupin: Fluctuations identitaires et sexuelles / Guri Ellen Barstad
  • Gender Convergence in Sand’s La Mare au diable, a Contrasexual Reading / James F. Hamilton
  • “Étrange n’est-ce pas?”: The Princesse Edmond de Polignac, Erik Satie’s Socrate, and a Lesbian Aesthetic of Music? / Samuel N. Dorf
  • Outing Proust / Nathan Guss
  • The Anus of Tiresias: Sodomy, Alchemy, Metamorphosis / Ed Madden
  • Queer Writing: Homoeroticism in Jean Genet’s Fiction / Elizabeth Stephens
  • Nous sommes un fléau social: Cinéma, vidéo et luttes homosexuelles / Hélène Fleckinger
  • Révélations Intimes: Vers une Cartographie Queer du Sud-Ouest / Philippe C. Dubois
  • Stop the World, or What’s Queer about Michel Houellebecq? / Douglas Morrey
  • Recto/Verso: Mapping the Contemporary Gay Novel / Lawrence R. Schehr.