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- French Postmodern Masculinities : from Neuromatrices to Seropositivity
- Publication Name
- French Postmodern Masculinities
- Title
- French Postmodern Masculinities
- Subtitle
- From Neuromatrices to Seropositivity
- Format
- Hardcover
- EAN
- 9781846312151
- ISBN
- 9781846312151
- Publisher
- Liverpool University Press
- Genre
- Literary Criticism, History, Social Science
- Release Year
- 2009
- Release Date
- 12/12/2009
- Language
- English
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- GB
- Item Height
- 0.9in
- Item Length
- 6.3in
- Series
- Contemporary French and Francophone Cultures
- Publication Year
- 2010
- Topic
- Europe / France, Lgbt, Popular Culture
- Item Width
- 9.3in
- Item Weight
- 19.2 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 256 Pages
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As traditional notions of masculinity have been put into question, there have been representational reactions to and articulations of changing masculinities in post-modern culture. Certain contemporary French cultural productions are illustrative of these changing masculinities and this book offers the first comprehensive examination of these manifestations. Acclaimed critic Lawrence Schehr uses analysis of AIDS narratives, mainstream films, popular novels, more mainstream novels, a graphic novel, and rightist polemics to explore the changing meaning of masculinity in French society. French Postmodern Masculinities will appeal to a broad range of researchers and postgraduate students working in French cultural studies, cinema, and twentieth- and twenty-first-century French literature.
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Liverpool University Press
ISBN-10
1846312159
ISBN-13
9781846312151
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72984678
Product Key Features
Book Title
French Postmodern Masculinities : from Neuromatrices to Seropositivity
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Europe / France, Lgbt, Popular Culture
Publication Year
2010
Genre
Literary Criticism, History, Social Science
Number of Pages
256 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
6.3in
Item Height
0.9in
Item Width
9.3in
Item Weight
19.2 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Pq145.1.M28s34 2009
Edition Number
2
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"Precisely by virtue of its provocations, this book makes a valuable contribution to French sexuality studies and certainly deserves the attention of researchers in the field." , "This book makes a valuable contribution to French sexuality studies, and certainly deserves the attention of researchers in the field."--French Studies, Precisely by virtue of its provocations, this book makes a valuable contribution to French sexuality studies and certainly deserves the attention of researchers in the field., As the joint-last monograph to be published in his lifetime, French Post-Modern Masculinities now stands as an epitaph to the late Lawrence R. Schehr. In this study Schehr extends previously published work to propose a complex thesis about contemporary masculinity and subjectivity. Although the monograph's title references the whole postmodern era, Schehr is concerned here with the last two decades, a period he characterizes as 'post-human' (p. 10). Schehr contends that the permanent connectedness brought about by economic globalization and the internet technologies of our age gives rise to new modes of being. In recent times, the author asserts, a new mode of rhizomatic subjectivity has developed, whereby subjects are permanently and virologically connected to each other, and also to machines. Schehr states that, in consequence of this, only the simulacrum of autonomousindividual subjectivity remains. A 'new masculinity' (p. 11), marked by vulnerability, thus emerges. The studies of turn-of-the-millennium French novels, autofictions, films, and bandes dessine´es that follow aim to chart the ways in which the newly networked male self is imagined in certain French cultural productions, which have been deliberately -- and sometimes provocatively -- selected to represent popular, rather than high cultural, discourses of masculinity. It becomes clear that Schehr is chiefly interested in how these represented masculine subjectivities accommodate same-sex desire between men (or, occasionally, paedophilic desire--as in Nicolas Jones-Gorlin's Rose bonbon). He nonetheless avoids identifying his work as a study of French queer writing and cinema, partly because heterosexual authors feature too, but also because Schehr holds that this is a 'post-queer' age, in which sexual categorization is rendered redundant by a climate of acceptance of homosexuality. (This argument is, however, somewhat undermined by the homophobic discourses he identifies in the profoundly misanthropic works treated in his final chapter.) The visions of masculinity that Schehr charts range from the dystopian to the utopian. In contemporary AIDS writing, the state of 'seropositivity' (to use the author's neologism) allows men access to a subcultural network where Schehr finds individual subjectivity to be annihilated in the creation of a homoerotic 'pornotopia'. Conversely, in the case of writers like Michel Houellebecq, Maurice Dantec, and Marc-E´ douard Nabe, Schehr suggests that the perceived demise of the invulnerable (and heterosexual) male subject engenders their apocalyptic imaginings of an amoral, sexually degenerate society governed only by sadistic and destructive impulses. This work offers provocative reading, and not only owing to the hard-core sexual content of some of the primary texts Schehr discusses. The thesis on post-queer masculinity is thought-provoking, though, arguably, based too often on a reductive notion of French (middle-class Parisian) gay male experience, and not all the author's readings are uniformly convincing. Theory is worn a little too loosely, with the lack of engagement with feminist and gender theory being particularly surprising. It is also unfortunate that quite frequent translation and typographical errors remain in the published copy. Nonetheless, precisely by virtue of its provocations, this book makes a valuable contribution to French sexuality studies, and certainly deserves the attention of researchers in the field. Claire Boyle, French Studies, Vol 66, no 3, This book makes a valuable contribution to French sexuality studies, and certainly deserves the attention of researchers in the field.
Table of Content
Contents Acknowledgments Introduction 1 The work of Literature in an age of Queer reproduction 2 Neuromatrices and Networks 3 Topographies of Queer Popular culture 4 Perversions of the real Bibliography Index
Copyright Date
2009
Dewey Decimal
840.9/353
Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
22
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Yes
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