Overview
- Examines a range of French and Belgian authors
- Explores the idea of the “martyr” in the context of queer theory
- Takes a broad look at the historical and religious influences on French literature beyond the canonical Catholic novel
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Table of contents (7 chapters)
Keywords
- Catholicism in French literature
- queer studies and Catholicism
- queer studies and French Literature
- the martyr in French literature
- Georges Eekhoud
- Catholic iconography and homosexuality
- Gustave Flaubert
- Queer themes in Flaubert
- Antonin Artaud
- Jean Genet
- Michel Tournier
- Guy Hocquenghem
- martyrdom in Tournier
- gay men in Hocquenghem
- the gay martyr
- misogyny within Catholicism
- gay male identity within the Christian tradition
- religious cultural production in Belgium and France
- Catholic doctrine of martyrdom
- letters of Gustave Flaubert
About this book
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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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Sexuality, Iconography, and Fiction in French
Book Subtitle: Queering the Martyr
Authors: Jason James Hartford
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-71903-0
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-71902-3Published: 01 March 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-10128-2Published: 01 February 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-71903-0Published: 19 February 2018
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 243
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Comparative Literature, European Literature, Religion and Gender, Queer Theory