Sexuality, Iconography, and Fiction in French
| Autor: | Jason James Hartford |
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| EAN: | 9783319719030 |
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| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Produktart: | eBook |
| Veröffentlichungsdatum: | 19.02.2018 |
| Untertitel: | Queering the Martyr |
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| Schlagworte: | Antonin Artaud Catholic iconography and homosexuality Catholicism in French literature Georges Eekhoud Gustave Flaubert Queer themes in Flaubert queer studies and Catholicism queer studies and French Literature the martyr in French literature |
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This book explores the modern cultural history of the queer martyr in France and Belgium. By analyzing how popular writers in French responded to Catholic doctrine and the tradition of St. Sebastian in art, Queering the Martyr shows how religious and secular symbols overlapped to produce not one, but two martyr-types. These are the queer type, typified first by Gustave Flaubert, which is a philosophical foil, and the gay type, popularized by Jean Genet but created by the Belgian Georges Eekhoud, which is a political and pornographic device. Grounded in feminist queer theory and working from a post-psychoanalytical point of view, the argument explores the potential and limits of these two figures, noting especially the persistence of misogyny in religious culture.
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