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- Title
Surgissements, impasses et résistances: Une étude du désir lesboérotique dans La fin de la joie de Jacqueline Mabit et Visage de fièvre de Viviane Da Silva.
- Authors
Gibeau, Ariane
- Abstract
The present article contributes to the construction of a genealogy of heterodox desires in Québécois literature in French and to study La fin de la joie (1945) by Jacqueline Mabit and Visage de fièvre (1960) by Viviane Da Silva, two novels that are forgotten today, but which nonetheless contextualized lesboerotic desire before the "first generation" of Lesbian writers in the 1970s. It examines the strategies of refusal (of mourning and ending in Mabit's work, and of heterosexuality in Da Silva's) as ways of textualizing desire between women. It is precisely through negation that desire emerges in these two works and which permits an interrogation of heterosexuality as a dominant institution. Despite certain conservative narrative traits, La fin de la joie and Visage de fièvre break with certain norms, expectations, and dominant discourses.
- Subjects
FRENCH-Canadian literature; HETEROSEXUALITY; SEXUAL orientation; HETEROSEXISM; FEMINISTS
- Publication
Quebec Studies, 2022, Vol 74, Issue 1, p73
- ISSN
0737-3759
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3828/qs.2022.16