The
authors throw light on the peculiar conditions that have made French culture unreceptive
to the idea that sexual subcultures form a legitimate object of serious study, and make
considerable progress towards redressing this situation as it applies to American French
studies.
“The
Rhetoric of the Other” explores dominant and queer traditions by focusing of four
areas of inquiry: queer pedagogy, queer readings from Diderot to Proust, Francophone
contexts, and gay and lesbian issues invisibilities. The contributions in this collection
relate to early modern and modern topics as well as more contemporary ones, and they range
over the fields of literature, film and cultural studies. In addition to France itself,
the French-speaking Caribbean and the province of Quebec are also represented. This is a
collected volume of unusual quality and interest, which will be important to many with a
professional and/or critical interest in French and French-speaking literature and
cultural studies.
Martine Antle is
associate Professor of French and European Studies at the University of North Carolina,
Chapel Hill. She is the author of Théâtre et Poésie Surréaliste and the editor
of The Object in France Today. She has published articles on Duras, surrealism, the
contemporary novel, and contemporary French culture.
Dominique
D. Fisher
is associate Professor of French and Cultural Studies at the University of North Carolina,
Chapel Hill. She has published Staging Language and Language(s) of the Stage, as
well as the articles on Gautier, Baudelaire, Mallarmé, Foucault, Tahar Djaout, Nina
Bouraoui, and multiculturalism. She is co-editor with Lawrence Schehr of
Articulations
of Difference.
ISBN 1-889431-78-8
2002
$49.95
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