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The Inverted Gaze

Queering the French Literary Classics in America

ISBN-13: 9781551524108

Contributor(s): Francois Cusset

Subjects: Gay & Lesbian Studies

Publisher: Arsenal Pulp Press

Publisher Imprint: Arsenal Pulp Press

Publication Date: 24-11-2011

Format: Paperback

Availability: In stock

£16.99

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About the book

In a thought-provoking and free-minded journey across six centuries of literary classics and sexual polemics, Francois Cusset investigates the queering of the French literary canon by American writers and scholars. In The Inverted Gaze, Cusset presents the foundations and rationale for queer theory, the field of study - established in the 1990s and promulgated by the likes of Judith Butler, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick and Michael Warner (in the wake of Michel Foucault) - which challenges a supposed `heteronormative' ideology in Western culture.

The Inverted Gaze

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