Women Who Love Women in French Contemporary Literature and Film

ISBN-13: 9783838301709 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 224 str.

Annabelle Dolidon (Johns Hopkins University)

Opis

In this study, I analyze late twentieth- century French novels and movies that have, central to their narratives, love between women; and I bring to the surface the fresh standpoints that authors and filmmakers develop about changing and contested modes of relationality in modern France. More particularly, I demonstrate how the normative connotations of lesbian love, first impose oppressive and reductive representations of women who love women, and second, how these connotations can be displaced from within, and, once subverted, open up questions that pertain to other domains of human life than love, in particular to notions of temporality, community and relationality.

O autorze

Dolidon, Annabelle
Annabelle Dolidon is an Assistant Professor of French at Portland State University, Oregon. She teaches contemporary French literature and film, and Critical Theory. You can read her first article on abstraction and re-naterialization of the (lesbian) body in the movie \"The Girl\" in the Summer 2009 issue of The Feminist Review.