Dysphoric Modernism - Undoing Gender in French Literature

Bringing together trans theory with French literary studies, Mat Fournier offers a new understanding of how the gender binary emerged in the modernist era.

List of contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. A Case Study: Schizophrenic Splits in La femme qui était en lui
2. Gide’s Failed Marriages
3. Cross-Pollination: A Trans Reading of Marcel Proust
4. On Queer Crooks, Abjection, and Moving Sideways: Maurice Sachs’s Dysphoric Smuggling
5. Intermittent Miracles: Queer Time and Temporal Dysphoria
Notes
Bibliography
Index

About the author

Mat Fournier is an associate professor of French at Ithaca College.

Summary

Bringing together trans theory with French literary studies, Mat Fournier offers a new understanding of how the gender binary emerged in the modernist era.

Product details

• Authors: Mat Fournier
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 26.11.2024
• EAN: 9780231209526
• ISBN: 978-0-231-20952-6
• No. of pages: 296
• Series: Modernist Latitudes
• Subjects: Guides > Self-help, everyday life > Family; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; France, LITERARY CRITICISM / European / French, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, Literary studies: general, Gender studies, gender groups, Literary Criticism, LITERARY CRITICISM / LGBTQ+, LITERARY CRITICISM / Subjects & Themes / Gender Identity