ISBN:
9780754686460
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (236 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
Parallel Title:
Print version Queer French : Globalization, Language, and Sexual Citizenship in France
DDC:
306.76/60944
Keywords:
Homosexuality
;
Gay press
;
Gays
;
Gay press
;
Gays ; France
;
Homosexuality ; France
;
Electronic books
Abstract:
In this book Denis M. Provencher examines the tensions between Anglo-American and French articulations of homosexuality and sexual citizenship in the context of contemporary French popular culture and first-person narratives. In the light of recent political events and the perceived hegemonic role of US forces throughout the world, an examination of the French resistance to globalization and 'Americanization', is timely in this context. He argues that contemporary French gay and lesbian cultures rely on long-standing French narratives that resist US models of gay experience. He maintains that French gay experiences are mitigated through (gay) French language that draws on several canonical voices - including Jean Genet and Jean-Paul Sartre - and various universalistic discourses. Drawing on material from a diverse array of media, Queer French draws out the importance of a French gay linguistic and semiotic tradition that emerges in contemporary textual practices and discourses as they relate to sexual citizenship in 20th- and 21st-century France. It will appeal to an interdisciplinary readership in gender and sexuality studies, cultural studies, linguistics, media and communication studies and French studies.
Abstract:
Cover -- Contents -- List of Maps -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Globalization and the French (Gay) Resistance -- The French Homosexual Citizen -- Globalization, Americanization, and the French (Gay) Resistance -- (Sexual) Citizenship, Difference, and (Gay) Language in France -- Chapter Outline -- PART 1 THEORETICAL CONSIDERATIONS -- 1 An Assault on French Gay Culture -- An (American) English Presence in the French Gay Press -- Being "Gay" in French Culture -- Vague English Creole: Lexical Evidence of an English Presence -- Cooperative Discourse in Têtu -- Locating French (Gay) Identity: Global and Local Forces at Work -- Cooperative French Discourse in Têtu -- Cooperative Discourse and Republican-Based Language of French Sexual Citizenship -- 2 The Next Gene(t)ration: "Genet" as an Authentic Model for Queer French -- Authenticity, Cultural Genuineness, and Language -- "Genet" as an Archetype or Authentic Speaker of Queer French -- Genet's Authentic Queer French Voice in Contemporary French Popular Culture -- Genet's Continued Influence on French Sexual Citizenship -- PART 2 EVERYDAY EXPRESSIONS -- 3 French Articulations of the Closet and Coming Out -- Recent Scholarship on Coming Out and the Closet -- The Coming-Out Interview: Methodology and Recruitment -- French Images of Concealment: Resistance to "The Closet" and "The Desert" -- French Images of Disclosure: "Faire le coming out" and "s'assumer" -- The French Republic and the Missing Homosexual Closet -- 4 "S'assumer dans la famille": Coming out in the French (Republican) Family -- The French Family, Symbolic Order, and Sex Talk -- Interpersonal and Elliptical Narratives of Sexual Disclosure -- L'Affaire du Loft: (Not) Coming Out on French Reality Television -- In Search of Visible and Democratic Models of Citizenship -- 5 Gay Paris: Language, Sexuality, and Space in the French Capital.
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