TY - JOUR
TI - Breaking Off the Heterosexual Contract, Consenting to Alternative Narratives of Desire?
AU - Bujor, Flavia
TI - Breaking Off the Heterosexual Contract, Consenting to Alternative Narratives of Desire?
AB - 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.
VL - Volume 24 (2024)
IS - Volume 24, issue 2
PY - 2024
SN - 1732-8705
C1 - 2084-3917
SP - 307
EP - 315
DO - 10.4467/20843917RC.24.023.20421
UR - https://ejournals.eu/en/journal/romanica-cracoviensia/article/rompre-le-contrat-heterosexuel-consentir-a-dautres-imaginaires-du-desir
KW - dystopia
KW - utopia
KW - heterosexual contract
KW - queer desire