Gay Signatures: Gay and Lesbian Theory, Fiction and Film in France, 1945-1995
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...
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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.BooknewsBrings together critical essays written during the mid-1990s that reflect upon some of the ways in which French gay and lesbian identity has been inscribed and read in fictional, theoretical, and cinematic texts produced in the post-war period. The first section is composed of a series of interviews with leading writers, psychoanalysts and critics. The second contains a dozen essays that focus on gay writing since the Enlightenment. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.
AcknowledgementsNotes on ContributorsIntroduction: Reading Gay Signatures11Cruising (Through) Encounters292Reconsidering 'Gay': Hocquenghem, Identity Politics and the Baroque513Are Lesbians Women? The Relationship between Lesbianism and Feminism in the Work of Luce Irigaray and Monique Wittig734The Outlaw Returns: Homos vs. Tradition in the New Work of Leo Bersani915Commodifying Queer: Violette Leduc's Autobiographical Homotextualities1136'Hardly Grazing', Josiane Balasko's Gazon mandit (1995): The mise-en-textes and mise-en-scene of Sexuality/ies1317'A Walk along the side of the Motorway': AIDS and the Spectacular Body of Herve Guibert1518Jobs for the Boys? Or: What's New About the Male Hunter in Duvert, Guibert and Jourdan?1739Visions of Excess: Filming/Writing the Gay Self in Collard's Savage Nights193Chronology209Select Bibliography215Index225
\ BooknewsBrings together critical essays written during the mid-1990s that reflect upon some of the ways in which French gay and lesbian identity has been inscribed and read in fictional, theoretical, and cinematic texts produced in the post-war period. The first section is composed of a series of interviews with leading writers, psychoanalysts and critics. The second contains a dozen essays that focus on gay writing since the Enlightenment. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.\ \
