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- Title
Médias, hypersexualisation, et mise en scène de soi: le pari dangereux de Nelly Arcan.
- Authors
Baillargeon, Mercédès
- Abstract
This article focuses on the writer Nelly Arcan's seemingly paradoxical relationship to the media. On the one hand, she denounces the way the media overly sexualizes women; on the other, she caters to the media's obsession with the sexualized female body by presenting herself as an object of desire. Moreover, Arcan's work can be classified as "autofiction," meaning that she combines factual and fictional writing by putting herself directly in play as part of her writing. Although she does so as a way to denounce the media's emphasis on overly sexualizing women, I argue in this article that doing so does not come without a cost, which has led to her victimization by the media, especially after her 2009 suicide. Looking specifically at her posthumous short story "La honte," as well as her first-person narratives Putain and Folle, I focus on metafiction, (post)feminism, and the media in her works. I thus provide a textual and sociological reading of Arcan's ambiguous literary oeuvre, which we can locate somewhere between provocation, denunciation, and philosophical reflection on the relationship between the Self, self-representation, and sexuality.
- Subjects
ARCAN, Nelly; MASS media &; literature; WOMEN in mass media; PUTAIN (Book); FOLLE (Book); BURQA de chair (Book); FRENCH-Canadian short stories; 21ST century French-Canadian literature
- Publication
Quebec Studies, 2017, Vol 63, p9
- ISSN
0737-3759
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3828/qs.2017.3