Dysphoric Modernism: Undoing Gender in French Literature

by Mat Fournier

During the interwar years in France, modernist literature challenged norms around sex and sexuality through daring portrayals of homosexuality and queerness. The same moment, however, witnessed the crystallization of the Western gender binary and its stark lines of division between male and female. Bringing together trans theory with French literary studies, Mat Fournier offers a new understanding of how the gender binary emerged in the modernist...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231209533
• ISBN13: 9780231209533
• Release Date: November 2024
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 0.83 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.5"