Stolen Limelight: Gender, Display and Displacement in Modern Fiction in French - Couverture rigide

Gray, Margaret E.

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1786838605 ISBN 13 : 9781786838605

Editeur : University of Wales Press, 2022

Synopsis

Who has not, in a favored moment, 'stolen the limelight', whether inadvertently or by design? The implications of such an act of display - its illicitness, its verve, its vertiginous reversal of power, its subversiveness - are explored in this book. Narrative crafting and management of such scenarios are studied across canonical novels by Gide, Colette, Mauriac, and Duras, as well as by African Francophone writer Oyono and detective novelist Japrisot. As manipulated within narrative, acts of display position a viewer or reader from whom response (from veneration or desire to repugnance or horror) is solicited; but this study demonstrates that display can also work subversively, destabilising and displacing such a privileged spectator. As strategies of displacement, these scenarios ultimately neutralise and even occult the very subject they so energetically appear to solicit. Powered by gendered tensions, this dynamic of display as displacement works toward purposes of struggle, resistance or repression.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Margaret E. Gray is Associate Professor in the Department of French and Italian at Indiana University/Bloomington, USA, specialising in twentieth-century French and Francophone fiction.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of Wales Press
• Date d'édition: 2022
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1786838605
• ISBN 13: 9781786838605
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 256
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• Personne responsable: non disponible