Queer Paradox/Paradoxical Queer

Anne Garréta's Pas un jour (2002)

Bibliographic Data

ID12458917
AuthorsLucille Cairns (Durham University, corresponding author)
Year2007
Volume11
Issue1-2
Pages70-87
Publication date2007-08-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Lesbian Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1089-4160 • E-ISSN: 1540-3548
PublisherTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1300/j155v11n01_05
PMID17804371
OpenAlexW2942530395
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited5

This paper shows how Anne Garréta's Pas un jour (2002) is a decidedly queer text, in both the new and the old sense of that contested epithet. I examine three interrelated concerns central to Pas un jour. First, I analyze Garréta's mediation of desire in general: her own experiences of it; modalities thereof which subvert more 'normative' models of lesbianism; and her convergences with other gay, but male writers and theorists of desire such as Guy Hocquenghem, Gilles Deleuze and Michel Foucault. Second, I interrogate Garréta's dichotomy between desire and friendship, and adumbrate contrasts with Foucauldian theory. Finally, I scrutinize the meaning and value attributed to the particular body of desire with which Garréta is most commonly associated-homosexuality- and their links with those of a contemporary gay male writer, Dominique Fernandez

Aesthetics · Art · Epistemology · Epithet · Friendship · Homosexuality · Literature · Meaning (existential · Normative · Psychoanalysis · Queer · Queer theory · Sociology · Value (mathematics · French Historical and Cultural Studies · French Literature and Critical Theory · French Literature and Criticism · Gender Studies · Philosophy · Psychology · Social Psychology

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