Marie-Luise KOHLKE, Luisa ORZA (dir.), Negotiating Sexual Idioms. Image, Text,Performance.
Amsterdam/New York, NY: Rodopi, coll. "Atthe Interface/Probing the Boundaries" n° 53, 2008, XXXI-222 p.
Isbn 13 (ean) :978-90-420-2491-5
Présentation de l'éditeur :
NegotiatingSexual Idioms: Image, Text, Performance affords new theoretical approaches andinsights into the complexity of sexual discourse pervading contemporarycultures, exploring sexuality's role in dominant conceptualisations of self andsociety, in patterns of political belonging and exclusion, and in societaltransformations. Opening with a substantial critical introduction, thiscollection of twelve essays and creative pieces contributes to significantcurrent debates regarding sexual rights and their violation, queer theory andidentity politics, sexual fantasy formations and strategies of pleasure, andthe celebration of sexual diversity, topics explored through a variety ofdisciplinary frameworks, including gender and film studies, religious philosophy,neo-Victorian and postcolonial literature, sociology, pornography, andperformance art. The volume positions the subjects of sex and sexuality ascrucial to our ethical understanding of the human, both in individual andcommunal terms, exploring how claims for sexual subjectivity and citizenshipare formulated and the entitlements they entail. The analytical insightsoffered signal important new directions for critical engagement with thesocio-political construction of sexuality and its strategic deployment withinthe cultural imaginary. Designed to appeal equally to scholars, students, andgeneral readers, Negotiating Sexual Idioms will prove essential reading forthose interested in multi-disciplinary approaches to reading sex and sexualitywithin inter-cultural contexts, from the early modern period to thepresent-day.
Table des matières :
Acknowledgements
Marie-LuiseKOHLKE and Luisa ORZA: Introduction: The Intricacies of Sexual Idioms
PART IDesiring Subjects and Sexual Others
Ilana SHILOH: Spiritual Carnality: Lars vonTrier's Breaking the Waves and Flannery O'Connor's “A Temple of the Holy Ghost”
TahseenBÉA: Is My Yearning for You Sexual or Spiritual? Cultivating the Divine betweenUs
JanPeterson RODDY: Country-Queer: Reading & Rewriting Sexuality in Representationsof the Hillbilly
Marie-LuiseKOHLKE: Sexsation and the Neo-Victorian Novel: Orientalising the NineteenthCentury in Contemporary Fiction
PART IIBeings and Bodies in Sexual Discourse
ShalmaleePALEKAR: Soma-Rasa
KaterinaLIŠKOVÁ: Normalise Me! Sexual and Gender Identity in Sexological,Criminological, and Feminist Discourses on Pornography
ErzsébetBARÁT: Les-being and Identity Politics: The Intersectionality of SexualIdentity and Desire
Marek M.WOJTASZEK: Brokeback Mountain and the Nature of Desire: Lovebeyond Transcendence
PART IIISexibition, Power, and the Gaze
JenniferTYBURCZY: Perverting the Museum: The Politics and Performance of SexualArtefacts
BenjaminJACOB: Whore, Court, Church, and Europe's First Modern Obscene Text
GodwinSIUNDU: Imagining Manhoods: Voyeurism and Masculine Anxieties in East AfricanAsian Fiction
Luisa ORZA:One
Les auteurs :
Marie-LuiseKohlke is a contemporary literature specialist in neo-Victorian fiction andtrauma narratives at Swansea University, Wales, and the General and FoundingEditor of the peer-reviewed Neo-Victorian Studies e-Journal.
Luisa Orzais a writer and researcher in sexual and reproductive rights, with a specialinterest in power relations, gender, and the dynamics of negotiated dominanceand submission.