Breaking Off the Heterosexual Contract, Consenting to Alternative Narratives of Desire?
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Romanica Cracoviensia, Volume 24 (2024), Volume 24, issue 2, pp. 307-315
https://doi.org/10.4467/20843917RC.24.023.20421Authors
Rompre le contrat hétérosexuel, consentir à d’autres imaginaires du désir ?
Wendy Delorme’s Viendra le temps du feu and Phoebe Hadjimarkos Clarke’s Tabor, two French polyphonic dystopian novels published in 2021, can be construed as attempts to break free from a social contract that is essentially a heterosexual contract (Wittig), so as to usher in a utopian community where the dynamics of desire is redefined. As the reader is challenged to consent to these alternative imaginary worlds on a narrative as well as on a metaliterary level, both novels end up questioning the very desire for fiction as a source of empowerment.
Beaubatie Emmanuel, 2021, Transfuges de sexe. Passer les frontières du genre, Paris : La Découverte.
Carabédian Alice, 2022, Utopie radicale. Par-delà l’imaginaire des cabanes et des ruines, Paris : Seuil.
Delorme Wendy, 2021, Viendra le temps du feu, Paris : Cambourakis, coll. « Sorcières ».
Hadjimarkos Clarke Phœbe, 2021, Tabor, Mons-en-Barœul : Le Sabot.
Rousseau Jean-Jacques, 1964 [1762], Le Contrat social, Paris : Gallimard, coll. « Folio Essais ».
Wittig Monique, 2013 [1992], La Pensée straight, Paris : Amsterdam.
Information: Romanica Cracoviensia, Volume 24 (2024), Volume 24, issue 2, pp. 307-315
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