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.
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| Imprint: |
University Of Wales Press
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| Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
| Series: |
French & Francophone Studies |
| Release date: |
May 2022 |
| Dimensions: |
216 x 138mm (L x W) |
| Format: |
Hardcover
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| Pages: |
256 |
| ISBN-13: |
978-1-78683-860-5 |
| Categories: |
Books >
Arts & Architecture >
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| LSN: |
1-78683-860-5 |
| Barcode: |
9781786838605 |
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