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"An in-depth look at three important French-language women writers
who tackle gender stereotypes, desire, the body, language and
empowerment, this richly documented study is rigorous, thorough,
illuminating and highly readable, with broader implications for
contemporary feminism and women's writing within and beyond France
and Quebec. A major contribution." (Lori Saint-Martin, Professor of
Literary Studies, University of Quebec in Montreal) This book is
the first comparative study of the work of Francophone authors
Annie Ernaux (France), Nancy Huston (Alberta and France) and Nelly
Arcan (Quebec) and explores their representation of sex, sexuality
and the body from a feminist perspective. In particular, this study
examines their narrative treatment of dominant sexual discourses,
sexual difference and diverse feminine bodily experience. In so
doing, this book reveals these writers' distinctive contribution to
contemporary women's writing in French and different feminisms,
which takes the form of a unique, "frank" French feminism. This
frank French feminist approach, this book shows, is concerned with
tackling gender inequality, sexism and misogyny, but also
recognises the difficulties involved in feminist action, and
acknowledges that adherence to allegedly oppressive gender
stereotypes can actually prove enjoyable and empowering for women.
This book examines the authors' earliest to latest publications and
a broad range of genres and media, including fictional and
autofictional novels, autobiographies, critical essays,
photo-texts, diaries, journals, illustrated oeuvres, media
addresses and newspaper articles. This book project was the Winner
of the 2021 Peter Lang Young Scholars Competition in Contemporary
Women's Writing in French.
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.
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