French Postmodern Masculinities
French Postmodern Masculinities: From Neuromatrices to Seropositivity
LAWRENCE R. SCHEHR
Series: Contemporary French and Francophone Cultures
Volume: 12
Copyright Date: 2009
Edition: 1
Published by: Liverpool University Press
Pages: 256
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French Postmodern Masculinities
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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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Subjects: History
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  1. Front Matter
    Front Matter (pp. i-vi)
  2. Table of Contents
    Table of Contents (pp. vii-vii)
  3. Acknowledgments
    Acknowledgments (pp. viii-viii)
  4. Introduction
    Introduction (pp. 1-16)

    For the first time in ages, we are witnessing a changing hegemony in which heteronormativity and phallogocentrism have themselves perhaps finally come face-to-face with notions of their own mortality, given changing discourses and mores. This book focuses on changes in the representations and depictions of masculinity and masculine sexualities evolving in the contemporary era in France, the causes for which I shall turn to shortly. These changes have had far-reaching effects not only in the standard fora in which we might have expected them, but in other areas that would once have seemed fairly safe strongholds of heteronormative masculinity. Thus...

  5. CHAPTER ONE The Work of Literature in an Age of Queer Reproduction
    CHAPTER ONE The Work of Literature in an Age of Queer Reproduction (pp. 17-75)

    Even if literature is no longer the dominant vehicle for the transmission of cultural values, it still functions to transport cultural values at a local level for emerging groups. Literature has been a vehicle for the expression of gay, lesbian, and queer cultures, and specifically, as they have developed over the past four decades and as they have gradually moved from having a marginalized and even taboo status to being simply minority discourses, and now ultimately part of mainstream cultural production, with no one (in the middle classes, at least) batting an eye simply because of sexuality alone. It is...

  6. CHAPTER TWO Neuromatrices and Networks
    CHAPTER TWO Neuromatrices and Networks (pp. 76-125)

    Dark and dire is the universe of the contemporary French neo-polar and science-fiction writer Maurice G. Dantec. Author of a number of large, sprawling novels, plus some short stories, interviews, and (for lack of a better term) rants, Dantec has situated himself as a singular figure on the French literary scene. And this has occurred in spite of the fact that he is precisely not on the French literary scene, having emigrated to Canada in protest (at least in part) against the European lack of commitment during the Yugoslav wars of the 1990s. Writing from what is admittedly a rightist,...

  7. CHAPTER THREE Topographies of Queer Popular Culture
    CHAPTER THREE Topographies of Queer Popular Culture (pp. 126-173)

    A look at a popular cultural phenomenon can often allow the observer to put her or his finger on the pulse of the moment; a generalized popular culture reflects neither canonicity (though often an established status quo) nor an edgy future, but rather it is the sign of the times. I am arguing for an examination of discourses, regardless of level or literary value. As Foucault showed long ago inLes Mots et les choses, emerging discourses – though he did not limit himself to them – appear in an episteme that, while clearly delineating a field, contains contradictions. And I mean...

  8. CHAPTER FOUR Perversions of the Real
    CHAPTER FOUR Perversions of the Real (pp. 174-227)

    At the beginning of his somewhat biographical, somewhat autobiographical, and somewhat jazzy essay on the singer Billie Holiday, the author, Marc-Édouard Nabe, offers a rhetorical conceit that places him, though as yet unborn, as a sentient being at a performance by the singer. Though he is “moins 3 mois [minus three months old]” (BH11), he reacts to the concert viscerally, as he drinks in the sound of the blues singer at her famous New York concert at carnegie Hall. This conceit points to Nabe’s selfassessment that he is one of the true jazzmavens, one of the few people...

  9. Bibliography
    Bibliography (pp. 228-234)
  10. Index
    Index (pp. 235-240)
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