Queer paradox/paradoxical queer: Anne Garréta's Pas un jour (2002).
This paper shows how Anne Garréta's Pas un jour (2002) is a decidedly queer text, in both the new and the old sense of that contested epithet. I examine three interrelated concerns central to Pas un jour. First, I analyze Garréta's mediation of desire in general: her own experiences of it; modalities thereof which subvert more 'normative' models of lesbianism; and her convergences with other gay, but male writers and theorists of desire such as Guy Hocquenghem, Gilles Deleuze and Michel Foucault. Second, I interrogate Garréta's dichotomy between desire and friendship, and adumbrate contrasts with Foucauldian theory. Finally, I scrutinize the meaning and value attributed to the particular body of desire with which Garréta is most commonly associated-homosexuality- and their links with those of a contemporary gay male writer, Dominique Fernandez.
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Lucille
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Department of French, School of Modern Languages and Cultures, University of Durham, Elvet Riverside, New Elvet, Durham, DH1 3JT, UK. lucille.cairns@stir.ac.uk
D005260:Female; D005602:France; D018452:Homosexuality, Female; D006801:Humans; D007400:Interprofessional Relations; D008093:Literature, Modern; D026684:Personal Autonomy; D012747:Sexual Partners; D012938:Social Perception; D013240:Stereotyping