Sexuality, Iconography, and Fiction in French

Sexuality, Iconography, and Fiction in French
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Total Pages : 256
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ISBN-10 : 9783319719030
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Book Synopsis Sexuality, Iconography, and Fiction in French by : Jason James Hartford

Download or read book Sexuality, Iconography, and Fiction in French written by Jason James Hartford and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-02-19 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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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