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OverviewDuring the interwar years in France, modernist literature challenged norms around sex and sexuality through daring portrayals of homosexuality and queerness. The same moment, however, witnessed the crystallization of the Western gender binary and its stark lines of division between male and female. Bringing together trans theory with French literary studies, Mat Fournier offers a new understanding of how the gender binary emerged in the modernist era. Dysphoric Modernism considers gender deviance in works by a broad range of French authors, both writers who are canonical for queer theory, such as Marcel Proust, André Gide, Jean Genet, and Colette, and lesser-known figures, including René Crevel, Raymond Radiguet, Maurice Sachs, and Maurice Rostand. Its trans readings track the dysphoria inherent to modern gender and the many ways these texts both disrupt and reinforce it. Examining the complex entanglements of gender and sexuality with the colonial project, Fournier argues that modernist writers' representations of sexual dissidence came at the cost of their enforcement of racial and gendered discrimination. A groundbreaking transgender analysis of French modernist literature, this book also demonstrates the significance of the concept of dysphoria for a number of fields. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Mat FournierPublisher: Columbia University Press Imprint: Columbia University Press ISBN: 9780231209526ISBN 10: 0231209525 Pages: 296 Publication Date: 26 November 2024 Audience: College/higher education , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Awaiting stock  The supplier is currently out of stock of this item. It will be ordered for you and placed on backorder. Once it does come back in stock, we will ship it out for you. Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. A Case Study: Schizophrenic Splits in La femme qui était en lui 2. Gide’s Failed Marriages 3. Cross-Pollination: A Trans Reading of Marcel Proust 4. On Queer Crooks, Abjection, and Moving Sideways: Maurice Sachs’s Dysphoric Smuggling 5. Intermittent Miracles: Queer Time and Temporal Dysphoria Notes Bibliography IndexReviewsDysphoric Modernism is a brilliant intervention into trans, queer, and modernist studies. By tracing the emergence of the “gender assemblage,” to which everyone relates dysphorically, Mat Fournier presents a Deleuzoguattarian argument for sexuality’s and gender’s interrelatedness, revealing that queer and trans theorists still have much to say to one another. -- Chris Coffman, author of <i>Queer Traversals: Psychoanalytic Queer and Trans Theories</i> Proust is at the heart of Dysphoric Modernism, along with a crowd of other well-known and less well-known contemporaries who together produce a collective, shimmering cloud of gender dysphoria, a term Fournier compellingly repurposes so that we can perceive in this modernist moment a “gender assemblage” that is “bursting” or “leaking,” and thereby revealing gender’s implication in all we do and are. -- Michael Lucey, author of <i>What Proust Heard: Novels and the Ethnography of Talk</i> Author InformationMat Fournier is an associate professor of French at Ithaca College. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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