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" Queer French : "
Denis M. Provencher.
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BL
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997347
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b751717
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Provencher, Denis M.
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Queer French : : globalization, language, and sexual citizenship in France /\ Denis M. Provencher.
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Aldershot, England ;Burlington, VT :: Ashgate,, ©2007.
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1 online resource (vi, 225 pages) :: illustrations
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0754686469
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: 1317072782
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: 6611238352
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: 9780754686460
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: 9781317072782
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: 9786611238353
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0754647951
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9780754647959
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-216) and index.
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| Contents
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Introduction: Globalization and the French (Gay) resistance -- pt. 1. Theoretical considerations -- 1. Assault on French gay culture -- An (American) English presence in the French gay press -- Being "gay" in French culture -- Vague English creole : lexical evidence of an English presence -- Cooperative discourse in Têtu -- Locating French (gay) identity : global and local forces at work -- Cooperative French discourse in Têtu -- Cooperative discourse and Republican-based language of French sexual citizenship -- 2. The next gene(t)ration : "genet" as an authentic model for queer French -- Authenticity, cultural genuineness, and language -- "Genet" as an archetype or authentic speaker of queer French -- Genet's authentic queer French voice in contemporary French popular culture -- Genet's continued influence on French sexual citizenship -- pt. 2. Everyday expressions -- 3. French articulations of the closet and coming out -- Recent scholarship on corning out and the closet -- The coming-out interview : methodology and recruitment -- French images of concealment : resistance to "the closet" and "the desert" -- French images of disclosure : "faire le coming out" and "s'assumer" -- The French Republic and the missing homosexual closet -- 4. "S'assumer dans la famille" : coming out in the French (Republican) family -- The French family, symbolic order, and sex talk -- Interpersonal and elliptical narratives of sexual disclosure -- L 'affaire du loft : (not) coming out on French reality television -- In search of visible and democratic models of citizenship -- 5. Gay Paris : language, sexuality, and space in the French capital -- Theorizing the global city, citizenship, and (homo) sexuality -- Situating gay Paris in historical and contemporary contexts -- A map analysis of French gay city -- Paris' gay center : global and local tensions -- Lesbians, sexuality, and the city -- Movement across the city : examples of transgression and integration -- French-Arab (Beur) experience : an exceptional model of integration -- Spatial claims to French (sexual) citizenship -- Conclusion : a queer French model for the 21st century -- Appendix: Interview questions.
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Drawing on material from a diverse array of media, Queer French examines the tensions between Anglo-American and French articulations of homosexuality and sexual citizenship in the context of contemporary French popular culture and first-person narratives.
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Gay press.
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Gays-- France.
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Homosexuality-- France.
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Gay press.
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Gays.
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Homosexuality.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE-- Gay Studies.
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France.
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306.76/60944
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HQ76.3.F8P76 2007eb
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