Between Genders: Narrating Difference in Early French ModernismUniversity of Delaware Press, 2004 - 206 Seiten Between Genders studies representations of gender in a group of early and mid-nineteenth-century French texts. The five texts examined are diverse in both literary form and theme: two novels, Honore de Balzac's La Fille aux yeux d'or, Theophile Gantier's Mademoiselle de Maupin, a novella by Charles Baudelarie, La Fanfarlo, Claire de Duras's pseudo-confession narrative, Ourika, and an autobiography of an intersexual, currently known under the title Herculine Barbin. These texts all share a preoccupation with experiences of gender and with vicissitudes of gender identities. Between Genders demonstrates how gender differentiation becomes a defining issue in early French Modernism. It also explores how border crossings among seemingly distinct terms of identification (heterosexuality, homosexualities, androgyny, etc.) put in question the idea of identity and provoke reconsideration of other important issues: esthetic, ethical, and political questions that are the subject of intense scrutiny and contestation throughout the period. Nathaniel Wing is Professor of French at Louisiana State University. |
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Vous êtes sans doute très surpris mon cher dAlbert Improvisation and Gender in Théophile Gautiers Mademoiselle de Maupin | 29 |
Androgyny Hysteria and the Poet in Charles Baudelaires La Fanfarlo | 51 |
Admissions of Difference Gender and Ethnicity in Ourika | 77 |
How HerculinesAbels Story Is Simplified Bringing Truth to Sexuality in Herculine Barbin | 103 |
Urban Body Erotic Body Balzacs La Fille aux yeux dor | 131 |
Conclusions | 166 |
Notes | 171 |
Bibliography | 198 |
Index | 202 |
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Abel Abel's aesthetic affirms African Alexina androgyne assumed autres avait Baudelaire Baudelaire's bien bourgeois bourgeoisie c'est Camille Camille's century chapter Claire de Duras Code noir complex conventional cultural d'Albert d'une desire difference discourse discussion dominant fiction Duras Duras's emphasis added erotic narrative être Fanfarlo fantasy feminine femme figure Fille aux yeux Foucault France French Gautier's gender identities Gender Trouble genre girl golden eyes Henri her/his Herculine Barbin hermaphrodite heterosexual his/her Histoire homme hysteria intersexual j'ai jeune Judith Butler linked Madame Bovary Madelaine Madelaine's Mademoiselle de Maupin male Marquise Marsay masculine ment Michel Foucault Mme de Cosmelly narrator nineteenth nineteenth-century norms novel novella Ourika Paquita Paris Parisian passage passion plaisir pleasure political protagonists qu'elle qu'il question relations representations Revolution role Rosette s/he Samuel scene sexualité sexuality social order society story Théodore tion tive tout translation transvestism University Press Ventriloquized woman women yeux d'or
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Seite 51 - Au moral comme au physique, j'ai toujours eu la sensation du gouffre, non seulement du gouffre du sommeil, mais du gouffre de l'action, du rêve, du souvenir, du désir, du regret, du remords, du beau, du nombre, etc.
Seite 187 - If sexuality was constituted as an area of investigation, this was only because relations of power had established it as a possible object; and conversely, if power was able to take it as a target, this was because techniques of knowledge and procedures of discourse were capable of investing it.
Seite 187 - What is peculiar to modern societies, in fact, is not that they consigned sex to a shadow existence, but that they dedicated themselves to speaking of it ad infinitum, while exploiting it as the secret.
Seite 55 - L'hystérie! Pourquoi ce mystère physiologique ne ferait-il pas le fond et le tuf d'une œuvre littéraire, ce mystère que l'Académie de médecine n'a pas encore résolu, et qui, s'exprimant dans les femmes par la sensation d'une boule ascendante et asphyxiante (je ne parle que du symptôme principal), se traduit chez les hommes nerveux par toutes les impuissances et aussi par l'aptitude à tous les excès?
Seite 171 - sex" not only functions as a norm, but is part of a regulatory practice that produces the bodies it governs, that is, whose regulatory force is made clear as a kind of productive power, the power to produce — demarcate, circulate, differentiate — the bodies it controls. Thus, "sex...
Seite 171 - Sex" is, thus, not simply what one has, or a static description of what one is: it will be one of the norms by which the "one" becomes viable at all, that which qualifies a body for life within the domain of cultural intelligibility.
Seite 173 - In the first instance, performativity must be understood not as a singular or deliberate "act," but, rather, as the reiterative and citational practice by which discourse produces the effects that it names.
Seite 48 - Tout était réuni dans le beau corps qui posait devant lui : — délicatesse et force, forme et couleur, les lignes d'une statue grecque du meilleur temps et le ton d'un Titien.
Seite 189 - ... class" body with its health, hygiene, descent, and race: the autosexualization of its body, the incarnation of sex in its body, the endogamy of sex and the body.
Seite 195 - They notice the penis of a brother or playmate, strikingly visible and of large proportions, at once recognize it as the superior counterpart of their own small and inconspicuous organ, and from that time forward fall a victim to envy for the penis