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Articulations of difference : gender studies and writing in French

Title: Articulations of difference : gender studies and writing in French / edited by Dominique D. Fisher and Lawrence R. Schehr.
Publication: Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 1997.

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xi, 294 pages; 24 cm

Summary

This collection of fifteen essays deals with the representations, theories, and problematics of homosexuality in French writing of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Though focusing on literature, it also includes other self-conscious writing, such as medical discourse and lexicography. The authors examine how homosexuality is a component in the representation of ideology, desire, and structures in the nineteenth century, and how, in the twentieth century, homosexuality emerges in its own right as a subject for representation and study.
Drawn from insights of the past twenty years, the essays reflect the renewed approach of gender and sexuality as they relate to homosexuality and its representation, and they rely on models that differentiate between sexuality and gender and between natural inclinations and social constructs. Despite the wide variety of subjects, critical positions, and authors' backgrounds, what these essays have in common is the willingness of the contributors to go beyond a set of rhetorics, a set of limitations that were a defining moment in the struggle of gay liberation, and its reflection in both creative and critical writing.
The essays are the product of a new stage in the development of gender studies: a look at all the genders, a recognition of a completely destabilized system of genders and sexes, a privileging of the slippages, ambiguities, and tropings among these positions. The essays range from studies of traditional narrative and poetry to readings of medical records, from examinations of twentieth-century narratives of gay liberation to readings of gender in the post-colonial world. For that reason, the editors have given the collection the title Articulations of Difference, for in that title, beyond gender and genre, is the idea of new production, new worlds, and new ideas.

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Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (p. 275289) and index.

Contents

Stendhal's legacy: Jean Baudrillard on seduction / David F. Bell -- The silent erotic : rhetoric of Baudelaire's mirrors / Dominique D. Fisher -- Baudelaire: homoérotismes / John R. Barberet -- Gay incipit: botanical connections, nosegays, and bouquets / George H. Bauer -- Silence, secrecy, and scientific discourse in the nineteenth century / Nigel E. Smith -- Histoires d'inversion: novelizing homosexuality at the fin de siècle / Vernon A. Rosario -- Homosexual erotic scripting in Verlaine's Hombres / Charles D. Minahen -- The seduction of terror: Annhine's annihilation in Liane de Pougy's Idylle saphique / Melanie Hawthorne -- René Crevel's body algebra / Garett R. Heysel -- Love song / Alphonso Lingis -- The frame of desire in the novel of the 1980's and 1990's / Martine Antle -- Beyond feminism: Elvire Murail's Escalier C / Laurence M. Porter -- Gomorrah and the word: but where are they? / Laurence Enjolras -- Purloined letters: intertextuality and intersexuality in Tahar Ben Jelloun's The sand child / Robert Harvey -- The national-sexual: from the fear of ghettos to the banalization of queer practices / Mireille Rosello.

ISBN

0804729743
9780804729741
0804729751
9780804729758

LCCN

97009683

OCLC

ocm36438939
36438939
SCSB-9125349

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Princeton University Library