%0 Journal Article
%T Breaking Off the Heterosexual Contract, Consenting to Alternative Narratives of Desire?
%A Bujor, Flavia
%J Romanica Cracoviensia
%V Volume 24 (2024)
%R 10.4467/20843917RC.24.023.20421
%N Volume 24, issue 2
%P 307-315
%K dystopia, utopia, heterosexual contract, queer desire
%@ 1732-8705
%D 2024
%U https://ejournals.eu/en/journal/romanica-cracoviensia/article/rompre-le-contrat-heterosexuel-consentir-a-dautres-imaginaires-du-desir
%X 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.