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French and Francophone Studies: Stolen Limelight : Gender, Display and Displacement in Modern Fiction in French by Margaret E. Gray (2022, Hardcover)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherGwasg Prifysgol Cymru / University of Wales Press
ISBN-101786838605
ISBN-139781786838605
eBay Product ID (ePID)20057275143
Product Key Features
Number of Pages256 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication NameStolen Limelight : Gender, Display and Displacement in Modern Fiction in French
Publication Year2022
SubjectComparative Literature, Gender Studies
TypeTextbook
Subject AreaLiterary Criticism, Social Science
AuthorMargaret E. Gray
SeriesFrench and Francophone Studies
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height0.8 in
Item Weight16 Oz
Item Length8.5 in
Item Width5.5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional
Dewey Edition23
Dewey Decimal843.00935
Table Of ContentPreface i Introduction 1 Part I: Embodied Display and Effects of Displacement Ch. 1: Staging the Hyperfeminine: Colette 41 Ch. 2: 'Stripped Naked': Dismantling Gender in Oyono's Une vie de boy 91 Ch. 3: Disappearance as Display: Beyond the Strait Gate in Gide 123 Part II: Narrating Display, Narrating Displacement Ch. 4: Framing Monstrosity in Mauriac's Thérèse Desqueyroux: 'Buried Hearts' and 'Filthy Bodies' 161 Ch. 5: 'Girl Stuff': Genre, Masquerade and Displacement in Japrisot's Piège Pour Cendrillon 194 Ch. 6: Spectacular Scripts: Transgendering the Mad Mother in Duras's Different Lover(s) 243 Conclusion 277 Bibliography
SynopsisA study of the revelatory and displacing effects of display in twentieth-century French literature. Spotlights ask spectators to desire or recoil from an object, yet they also transform the object into something unrecognizable. In Stolen Limelight , Margaret E. Gray traces these moments of illicit visibility through six twentieth-century French fictions, including canonical novels by Gide, Colette, Mauriac, and Duras as well as African Francophone writer Oyono and detective novelist Japrisot. Attentive to gendered tensions, Stolen Limelight teases out the displacing, destabilizing effects of display., Who has not, in a favored moment, 'stolen the limelight', whether inadvertently or by design? The implications of such an act of display - its illicitness, its verve, its vertiginous reversal of power, its subversiveness - are explored in this book. Narrative crafting and management of such scenarios are studied across canonical novels by Gide, Colette, Mauriac, and Duras, as well as by African Francophone writer Oyono and detective novelist Japrisot. As manipulated within narrative, acts of display position a viewer or reader from whom response (from veneration or desire to repugnance or horror) is solicited; but this study demonstrates that display can also work subversively, destabilising and displacing such a privileged spectator. As strategies of displacement, these scenarios ultimately neutralise and even occult the very subject they so energetically appear to solicit. Powered by gendered tensions, this dynamic of display as displacement works toward purposes of struggle, resistance or repression. Book jacket.
LC Classification NumberPQ637.G35
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