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.

Sommario

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

Info autore

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

Riassunto

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

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Mat Fournier
• Editore: Columbia University Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 26.11.2024
• EAN: 9780231209526
• ISBN: 978-0-231-20952-6
• Pagine: 296
• Serie: Modernist Latitudes
• Categorie: Guide e manuali > Libri sul benessere, vita quotidiana > Famiglia; Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Sociologia > Teorie sociologiche; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Scienze linguistiche e letterarie > Letteratura generale e comparata; 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