Queer(y)ing bodily norms in francophone culture / Polly Galis, Maria Tomlinson and Antonia Wimbush (eds).
| Other author | Galis, Polly, 1991- |
| Other author | Tomlinson, Maria, 1990- |
| Other author | Wimbush, Antonia, 1989- |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Oxford ; New York : Peter Lang, [2021] |
| Description | x, 279 pages ; 23 cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from eBooks on EBSCOhost |
| Subjects |
| Series | Modern French identities, 1422-9005 ; volume 140 |
| Contents | Introduction / Polly Galis, Maria Tomlinson and Antonia Wimbush -- Queering the body. Hookups : social networking and digital bodies in twenty-first-century France / Brian Troth -- Lesbian selves : the figure of the (body) double in Marie Nimier's works / Adina Stroia -- Children out of line : gender (dis)orientations and paths of queer resistance in the heterotopia / Ray Balstad -- Rethinking gendered bodily norms. Motherhood reconceived : the posthuman future is female in 'Mon mari le clone' by Marie Darrieussecq / Kathleen Rizy -- The female body in the plays of French Caribbean women writers / Vaness Lee -- Male bodily poetics in André Téchiné Quand on a 17 ans (2016) : physical violence and teenage passion / Seth Compaoré -- Hybrid and dysfunctional bodies. Dysfunctional bodies, dysfunctional gazes : artistic creation and death in Manger l'autre by Ananda Devi and Le Génie d'Abouby Isabelle Boni-Claverie / Cristina Onesta -- 14 or the Missing arm : ontological instability of the French contemporary novel in Jean Echenoz's work / Sara Bédard-Goulet -- The cyborg's undecidable body : a game of 'Who am I?' in Gaston Leroux's La Poupéesanglante / Kate Forster -- Bodies in flux. Mediating Eve : female protagonists and the contingent body in Hervé Guibert's late narrative / Loren Wolfe -- Exploring encounters in passages by Emile Ollivier : the role of testimonial responsibility to Othered bodies / Jennifer Boum Make -- Dance as encounter in the films of Claire Denis / Kathryn Chaffe -- Conclusion / Polly Galis, Maria Tomlinson and Antonia Wimbush. |
| Abstract | "Queer(y)ing Bodily Norms in Francophone Culture questions how a wide selection of restrictive norms come to bear on the body, through a close analysis of a range of texts, media and genres originating from across the francophone world and spanning the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Each essay troubles hegemonic, monolithic perceptions and portrayals of racial, class, gender, sexual and/or national identity, rethinking bodily norms as portrayed in literature, film, theatre and digital media specifically from a queer and querying perspective. The volume thus takes 'queer(y)ing' as its guiding methodology, an approach to culture and society which examines, questions and challenges normativity in all of its guises. The term 'queer(y)ing' retains the celebratory tone of the term 'queer' but avoids appropriating the identity of the LGBTQ+ community, a group which remains marginalized to this day. The publication reveals that evaluating the bodily norms depicted in francophone culture through a queer and querying lens allows us to fragment often oppressive and restrictive norms, and ultimately transform them"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2020036297 |
| ISBN | 9781789975147 (paperback) |
| ISBN | (ebook) |
| ISBN | (epub) |
| ISBN | (mobi) |
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