Denis M Provencher
Biographic Data
| ID | 133689 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Denis M Provencher |
| GIVEN NAMES | Denis M |
| FAMILY NAME | Provencher |
| SIGNATURE | PROVENCHER D M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Maryland, Baltimore County |
| ORCID | 0009-0009-3145-1668 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 30 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 125 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 29 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Conclusion
Abdellah Taïa’s transfilial memories of Genet’s tomb in Larache
Queer Realms of Memory
Introduction to the broken mirror
It’s complicated. For me, the experience is that the more you explore, the less you’re sure, in a way. And the more you explore, the more it changes. I say I’m a woman, but I’m exploring desire as a force of chaos that surprises me. And through desire, I get to explore many different identities. I don’t feel like I’m trapped in my woman’s body. I’m loving that woman’s body, actually. I love also the versatility of it – how easily I can look like …
Contemporary French Civilization s
Fik's deal with the devil
Introduction
Queer (Again) in Québec
Introduction
"Farid's impossible "je
In this essay, I analyze the speech acts of Farid, a thirty-six year old self-identified same-sex desiring man from my fieldwork, who recounts his trajectory from growing up in Algiers and his eventual migration as an adult to Angers and then Paris. I illustrate how his queer Maghrebi French story in the diaspora does not resonate significantly with the "coming out" (Provencher 2007) or "arrival" narratives (Schehr 2009) of other queer French spe…
Feeling, Doing, Acting, Seeing, Being Queer in Québec
Stepping back from queer theory
In a 2012 special issue of French Cultural Studies, Didier Eribon urges French studies scholars to step back from critical theory, and in particular queer theory as it has emerged in cultural and literary studies. He is also particularly critical of a version of queer theory conjugated with psychoanalysis. For Eribon, cultural studies scholars and those working in sexuality studies should move away from the ‘master narrative’ of the family and (r…
Introduction
This special issue of Modern & Contemporary France focuses on Maghrebi-French cultures and sexualities in contemporary France. It began as a series of papers presented as part of the conference pan
Ludovic-Mohamed Zahed’s performance of universal French citizenship and good Muslim brotherhood
This article builds on scholarship in performance studies, anthropology, discourse analysis and French studies by examining the performative speech acts of self-identified Maghrebi-French queer men from my recent fieldwork in France. As a point of departure, I draw on José Estaban Muñoz’s notion of ‘disidentification’ (1999) and Mireille Rosello’s notion of ‘declining the stereotype’ (1998) to examine the strategies of resistance for Maghrebi-Fre…
Coming Outà l'oriental
In this article, I examine issues of gender, sexuality, and religion for North African (Maghrebi)-French men in contemporary France. I introduce performance artist-photographer "2Fik," one of the Maghrebi-French research subjects from my 2010 fieldwork, and examine excerpts of his particular coming out story to his parents and situate it in relation to recent work on homosexuality in the housing projects of France's banlieues [suburban neighborho…
Language Matters
That language and sexuality are closely connected is one of the enduring themes in human sexuality research. The articles in this special issue of the Journal of Homosexuality explore some of these language-centered insights as they apply to same-sex related desires, identities, and practices and to other dimensions of non-normative sexual experiences. The articles address language use over a range of geographic and social locations. The linguist…
I Dislike Politicians and Homosexuals’
In this essay, I examine the pragmatic and social semiotic aspects of recent hate speech against French politicians and homosexuals. In part one I analyze the discourse surrounding the 2002 stabbing of Paris mayor Bertrand Delanoë in which his assailant Azedine Berkane expressed dislike for ‘politicians and homosexuals.’ The French media and authorities generally did not frame this as a ‘homophobic act’ and ignored any potentially logical associa…
Running Scared
Running Scared: masculinity and the representation of the male body PETER LEHMAN Detroit, Wayne State University Press, 2007 (2nd edition) xiv+262 pp., illus., notes, bibliography, index, $34.95 (p
Tracing Sexual Citizenship and Queerness in Drôle de Félix (2000) and Tarik el hob (2001)
Sartre, Self-Formation and Masculinities
Reviewed by: Sartre, Self-Formation and Masculinities Denis M. Provencher Boulé, Jean-Pierre. Sartre, Self-Formation and Masculinities. Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2005. In his latest book, Jean-Pierre Boulé provides a fresh look at Sartre by conducting a reading of the author’s life and work that focuses on the construction of selfhood and gender. Boulé concentrates primarily on what he refers to as the “early Sartre” (from 1905–1945) through a read…
Mapping Gay Paris
This essay draws from a larger ethnographic study conducted in France where I interviewed forty gay men and lesbians about their “coming-out” experience.1 As part of the interview, I asked particip
The Nation According to Lavisse
Ernest Lavisse's Histoire de France: Cours élémentaire (1884) was one of the most widely used history textbooks among French school children during the Third Republic. Le Petit Lavisse is replete with gender lessons that encourage French schoolboys to reflect on their identity and invigorate them with national pride following defeat in the Franco-Prussian war. In this essay, we examine representations of masculinityand male citizenship in Lavisse…
French Gay Modernism
Reviewed by: French Gay Modernism Denis M. Provencher Schehr, Lawrence R. French Gay Modernism. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2004. Pp. 201. In his new book, Lawrence Schehr examines the portrayals of "overtly gay male characters having social and often sexual relations with one another" (1) in French narratives from the first four decades of the twentieth century. Schehr's latest study is unique in that he analyzes these discursive strat…
Introduction
Entretien Avec Henry Rousso
Queer Realms of Memory
Coming Outà l'oriental
In this article, I examine issues of gender, sexuality, and religion for North African (Maghrebi)-French men in contemporary France. I introduce performance artist-photographer "2Fik," one of the Maghrebi-French research subjects from my 2010 fieldwork, and examine excerpts of his particular coming out story to his parents and situate it in relation to recent work on homosexuality in the housing projects of France's banlieues [suburban neighborho…
I Dislike Politicians and Homosexuals’
In this essay, I examine the pragmatic and social semiotic aspects of recent hate speech against French politicians and homosexuals. In part one I analyze the discourse surrounding the 2002 stabbing of Paris mayor Bertrand Delanoë in which his assailant Azedine Berkane expressed dislike for ‘politicians and homosexuals.’ The French media and authorities generally did not frame this as a ‘homophobic act’ and ignored any potentially logical associa…
Running Scared
Running Scared: masculinity and the representation of the male body PETER LEHMAN Detroit, Wayne State University Press, 2007 (2nd edition) xiv+262 pp., illus., notes, bibliography, index, $34.95 (p
Ludovic-Mohamed Zahed’s performance of universal French citizenship and good Muslim brotherhood
This article builds on scholarship in performance studies, anthropology, discourse analysis and French studies by examining the performative speech acts of self-identified Maghrebi-French queer men from my recent fieldwork in France. As a point of departure, I draw on José Estaban Muñoz’s notion of ‘disidentification’ (1999) and Mireille Rosello’s notion of ‘declining the stereotype’ (1998) to examine the strategies of resistance for Maghrebi-Fre…
Stepping back from queer theory
In a 2012 special issue of French Cultural Studies, Didier Eribon urges French studies scholars to step back from critical theory, and in particular queer theory as it has emerged in cultural and literary studies. He is also particularly critical of a version of queer theory conjugated with psychoanalysis. For Eribon, cultural studies scholars and those working in sexuality studies should move away from the ‘master narrative’ of the family and (r…
Language Matters
That language and sexuality are closely connected is one of the enduring themes in human sexuality research. The articles in this special issue of the Journal of Homosexuality explore some of these language-centered insights as they apply to same-sex related desires, identities, and practices and to other dimensions of non-normative sexual experiences. The articles address language use over a range of geographic and social locations. The linguist…
Tracing Sexual Citizenship and Queerness in Drôle de Félix (2000) and Tarik el hob (2001)
Mapping Gay Paris
This essay draws from a larger ethnographic study conducted in France where I interviewed forty gay men and lesbians about their “coming-out” experience.1 As part of the interview, I asked particip
The linguistic representation of femininity and masculinity in Jean Genet's Notre-Dame des Fleurs
Vague English Creole
Cet article se penche sur la construction de l'identite homosexuelle en France. L'A. revient sur l'importance du modele anglo-saxon vehicule par le Net et la presence toujours grandissante d'items anglophones dans la presse et la publicite gay ( Tetu). Pour autant l'identite gay a la francaise ne peut se resumer a des discours anglophiles etant donne la richesse ethnoculturelle qui compose la population vivant en France
"Farid's impossible "je
In this essay, I analyze the speech acts of Farid, a thirty-six year old self-identified same-sex desiring man from my fieldwork, who recounts his trajectory from growing up in Algiers and his eventual migration as an adult to Angers and then Paris. I illustrate how his queer Maghrebi French story in the diaspora does not resonate significantly with the "coming out" (Provencher 2007) or "arrival" narratives (Schehr 2009) of other queer French spe…
Introduction
This special issue of Modern & Contemporary France focuses on Maghrebi-French cultures and sexualities in contemporary France. It began as a series of papers presented as part of the conference pan
The Nation According to Lavisse
Ernest Lavisse's Histoire de France: Cours élémentaire (1884) was one of the most widely used history textbooks among French school children during the Third Republic. Le Petit Lavisse is replete with gender lessons that encourage French schoolboys to reflect on their identity and invigorate them with national pride following defeat in the Franco-Prussian war. In this essay, we examine representations of masculinityand male citizenship in Lavisse…
The Next Gene(t)ration
Dans cet article, l'A se penche sur l'identite nationale de la culture gay en France. L'A distingue les emprunts a la culture gay ango-saxonne pour analyser les caracteristiques specifiquement francaises de l'identite homosexuelle masculine notamment grâce a l'oeuvre de Jean Genet
The linguistic representation of femininity and masculinity in Jean Genet's Notre-Dame des Fleurs
The Next Gene(t)ration
Dans cet article, l'A se penche sur l'identite nationale de la culture gay en France. L'A distingue les emprunts a la culture gay ango-saxonne pour analyser les caracteristiques specifiquement francaises de l'identite homosexuelle masculine notamment grâce a l'oeuvre de Jean Genet
Vague English Creole
Cet article se penche sur la construction de l'identite homosexuelle en France. L'A. revient sur l'importance du modele anglo-saxon vehicule par le Net et la presence toujours grandissante d'items anglophones dans la presse et la publicite gay ( Tetu). Pour autant l'identite gay a la francaise ne peut se resumer a des discours anglophiles etant donne la richesse ethnoculturelle qui compose la population vivant en France
Queer Studies in France
Figures of Alterity
Reviewed by: Figures of Alterity: French Realism and Its Others Denis M. Provencher Schehr, Lawrence R. Figures of Alterity: French Realism and Its Others. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2003. Pp. xii + 251. In his latest book, Lawrence Schehr returns to the canon of French realism to examine discourses of alterity—what he defines as "the other" or "the previously unrepresented"—in the works of Balzac, Flaubert, Zola, Mirbeau, Proust an…
Mapping Gay Paris
This essay draws from a larger ethnographic study conducted in France where I interviewed forty gay men and lesbians about their “coming-out” experience.1 As part of the interview, I asked particip
The Nation According to Lavisse
Ernest Lavisse's Histoire de France: Cours élémentaire (1884) was one of the most widely used history textbooks among French school children during the Third Republic. Le Petit Lavisse is replete with gender lessons that encourage French schoolboys to reflect on their identity and invigorate them with national pride following defeat in the Franco-Prussian war. In this essay, we examine representations of masculinityand male citizenship in Lavisse…
French Gay Modernism
Reviewed by: French Gay Modernism Denis M. Provencher Schehr, Lawrence R. French Gay Modernism. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2004. Pp. 201. In his new book, Lawrence Schehr examines the portrayals of "overtly gay male characters having social and often sexual relations with one another" (1) in French narratives from the first four decades of the twentieth century. Schehr's latest study is unique in that he analyzes these discursive strat…
Introduction
Entretien Avec Henry Rousso
Tracing Sexual Citizenship and Queerness in Drôle de Félix (2000) and Tarik el hob (2001)
Sartre, Self-Formation and Masculinities
Reviewed by: Sartre, Self-Formation and Masculinities Denis M. Provencher Boulé, Jean-Pierre. Sartre, Self-Formation and Masculinities. Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2005. In his latest book, Jean-Pierre Boulé provides a fresh look at Sartre by conducting a reading of the author’s life and work that focuses on the construction of selfhood and gender. Boulé concentrates primarily on what he refers to as the “early Sartre” (from 1905–1945) through a read…
Running Scared
Running Scared: masculinity and the representation of the male body PETER LEHMAN Detroit, Wayne State University Press, 2007 (2nd edition) xiv+262 pp., illus., notes, bibliography, index, $34.95 (p
I Dislike Politicians and Homosexuals’
In this essay, I examine the pragmatic and social semiotic aspects of recent hate speech against French politicians and homosexuals. In part one I analyze the discourse surrounding the 2002 stabbing of Paris mayor Bertrand Delanoë in which his assailant Azedine Berkane expressed dislike for ‘politicians and homosexuals.’ The French media and authorities generally did not frame this as a ‘homophobic act’ and ignored any potentially logical associa…
Coming Outà l'oriental
In this article, I examine issues of gender, sexuality, and religion for North African (Maghrebi)-French men in contemporary France. I introduce performance artist-photographer "2Fik," one of the Maghrebi-French research subjects from my 2010 fieldwork, and examine excerpts of his particular coming out story to his parents and situate it in relation to recent work on homosexuality in the housing projects of France's banlieues [suburban neighborho…
Language Matters
That language and sexuality are closely connected is one of the enduring themes in human sexuality research. The articles in this special issue of the Journal of Homosexuality explore some of these language-centered insights as they apply to same-sex related desires, identities, and practices and to other dimensions of non-normative sexual experiences. The articles address language use over a range of geographic and social locations. The linguist…
Introduction
This special issue of Modern & Contemporary France focuses on Maghrebi-French cultures and sexualities in contemporary France. It began as a series of papers presented as part of the conference pan
Ludovic-Mohamed Zahed’s performance of universal French citizenship and good Muslim brotherhood
This article builds on scholarship in performance studies, anthropology, discourse analysis and French studies by examining the performative speech acts of self-identified Maghrebi-French queer men from my recent fieldwork in France. As a point of departure, I draw on José Estaban Muñoz’s notion of ‘disidentification’ (1999) and Mireille Rosello’s notion of ‘declining the stereotype’ (1998) to examine the strategies of resistance for Maghrebi-Fre…
Stepping back from queer theory
In a 2012 special issue of French Cultural Studies, Didier Eribon urges French studies scholars to step back from critical theory, and in particular queer theory as it has emerged in cultural and literary studies. He is also particularly critical of a version of queer theory conjugated with psychoanalysis. For Eribon, cultural studies scholars and those working in sexuality studies should move away from the ‘master narrative’ of the family and (r…
Feeling, Doing, Acting, Seeing, Being Queer in Québec
Queer (Again) in Québec
Introduction
"Farid's impossible "je
In this essay, I analyze the speech acts of Farid, a thirty-six year old self-identified same-sex desiring man from my fieldwork, who recounts his trajectory from growing up in Algiers and his eventual migration as an adult to Angers and then Paris. I illustrate how his queer Maghrebi French story in the diaspora does not resonate significantly with the "coming out" (Provencher 2007) or "arrival" narratives (Schehr 2009) of other queer French spe…
Fik's deal with the devil
Introduction
Sociology (22 works) · Gender Studies (20 works) · Art (16 works) · History (13 works) · Gender Studies (11 works) · Philosophy (11 works) · Political science (10 works) · French Historical and Cultural Studies (9 works) · Queer (8 works) · Aesthetics (7 works)