Gay signatures: gay and lesbian theory, fiction and film in France, 1945-1995

Heathcote, Owen, Alex Hughes & James S. Williams, editors

ISBN 10: 1859739873 / ISBN 13: 9781859739877

Edité par Oxford, New York, 1998

A propos de cet article

x, 227p., contributors, introduction, chronology, bibliography, index, very good first edition trade paperback in pictorial wraps. Berg French Studies, General editor: John E. Flower.

N° de réf. du vendeur 100250

Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: Gay signatures: gay and lesbian theory, fiction and film in France, 1945-1995
• Éditeur: Oxford, New York
• Date de parution: 1998
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 1859739873
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9781859739877
• Reliure: Paperback
• Édition: Edition originale
• Catalogues du vendeur:
  • Gay Studies
  • Literary criticism
  • Lesbiana
  • film cinema
  • Critical Theory

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Synopsis

This interdisciplinary book responds to the explosion of gay and lesbian creativity on modern-day France. Rather than attempting to formalize a specifically ‘gay' or ‘lesbian' style or identity, the authors seek to open up new ‘homotextualities,' understood here as ongoing constructions and deconstructions of both homosexuality and its environments. They investigate the work of (among others) Violette Leduc, Tony Duvert, Renaud Camus, and Guy Hocquenghem; the cinema of Josiane Balasko and Cyril Collard; the theoretical writings of Leo Bersani, Luce Irigaray, and Monique Wittig. Employing a range of methods, authors re-evaluate and contest both the literary and theoretical canon and establish new convergences between French and Gay Studies - in particular, queer theory. This book provides the first proper assessment of the usefulness of this approach when dealing with a literary and cultural tradition notoriously discreet about the very concept of a gay writer.

À propos de l?auteur

Owen Heathcote Dept of Modern Languages,University of Bradford Alex Hughes Professor in French Studies, University of Birmingham James S. Williams Senior Lecturer in French and Comparative Literature, University of Kent