Aus unseren Neuerwerbungen – Romanistik 2019.8

Sex­u­al­i­ty, iconog­ra­phy, and fic­tion in French: queer­ing the mar­tyr
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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Maps and ter­ri­to­ries: glob­al posi­tion­ing in the con­tem­po­rary French nov­el
The rapid­i­ty of post­war glob­al­iza­tion and the struc­tur­al changes it has brought to both social and spa­tial aspects of every­day life has meant, in France as else­where, the desta­bi­liz­ing of sens­es of place, iden­ti­ty, and belong­ing, as once famil­iar, local envi­ron­ments are increas­ing­ly de-local­ized and made porous to glob­al trends and plan­e­tary pre­oc­cu­pa­tions. Maps and Ter­ri­to­ries iden­ti­fies such pre­oc­cu­pa­tions as a fun­da­men­tal under­ly­ing impe­tus for the con­tem­po­rary French nov­el. Indeed, like France itself, the pro­tag­o­nists of its best fic­tion are con­stant­ly called upon to rene­go­ti­ate their iden­ti­ty in order to main­tain any sense of belong­ing with­in the trou­bled ter­ri­to­ries they call home.
Maps and Ter­ri­to­ries reads today’s French nov­el for how it re-maps such ter­ri­to­ries, and for how it posi­tions its pro­tag­o­nists vis-à-vis the pres­sures of glob­al­iza­tion, uncov­er­ing pre­vi­ous­ly unseen affini­ties amongst, and offer­ing fresh read­ings of—and offer­ing excit­ing new per­spec­tives on—a diverse set of authors: name­ly, Michel Houelle­becq, Chloé Delaume, Lydie Sal­vayre, Jean-Philippe Tou­s­saint, Vir­ginie Despentes, Philippe Vas­set, Jean Rolin, and Marie Dar­rieussecq. In the process, it sets the lit­er­ary works into dia­logue with a range of today’s most influ­en­tial the­o­rists of post­moder­ni­ty and glob­al­iza­tion, includ­ing Paul Vir­ilio, Marc Augé, Peter Slo­ter­dijk, Bruno Latour, Fredric Jame­son, Edward Casey, David Har­vey, and Ursu­la K. Heise.
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