Description: Further DetailsTitle: Dysphoric ModernismCondition: NewFormat: PaperbackEAN: 9780231209533Language: EnglishISBN-10: 0231209533ISBN: 9780231209533Author: Mat FournierType: Criticism & ReferenceItem Length: 140mmItem Height: 216mmSubtitle: Undoing Gender in French LiteraturePublisher: Columbia University PressRelease Date: 26/11/2024Description: During the interwar years in France, modernist literature challenged norms around sex and sexuality through daring portrayals of homosexuality and queerness. The same moment, however, witnessed the crystallization of the Western gender binary and its stark lines of division between male and female. Bringing together trans theory with French literary studies, Mat Fournier offers a new understanding of how the gender binary emerged in the modernist era.Dysphoric Modernism considers gender deviance in works by a broad range of French authors, both writers who are canonical for queer theory, such as Marcel Proust, André Gide, Jean Genet, and Colette, and lesser-known figures, including René Crevel, Raymond Radiguet, Maurice Sachs, and Maurice Rostand. Its trans readings track the dysphoria inherent to modern gender and the many ways these texts both disrupt and reinforce it. Examining the complex entanglements of gender and sexuality with the colonial project, Fournier argues that modernist writers’ representations of sexual dissidence came at the cost of their enforcement of racial and gendered discrimination. A groundbreaking transgender analysis of French modernist literature, this book also demonstrates the significance of the concept of dysphoria for a number of fields.Country/Region of Manufacture: USGenre: Society & CultureTopic: Gender Sex & Relationships, Literary CriticismBook Series: Modernist LatitudesRelease Year: 2024 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Book Title: Dysphoric Modernism
Publication Name: Dysphoric Modernism
Title: Dysphoric Modernism
EAN: 9780231209533
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0231209533
ISBN: 9780231209533
Author: Mat Fournier
Type: Criticism & Reference
Item Length: 140mm
Item Height: 216mm
Subtitle: Undoing Gender in French Literature
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Release Year: 2024
Release Date: 26/11/2024
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Genre: Society & Culture
Subject: Literary Criticism
Series: Modernist Latitudes
