Constructions de la subjectivité dans la littérature érotique féminine

Tomasz Swoboda

Abstract

Constructing Subjectivity in Women’s Erotic Writing

The distinction between eroticism and pornography implies judgments significant for the author’s position in the literary field. Contemporary women writers, aware of the mechanisms that manage this field, enter into a complex game with the public and, above all, against sexual stereotypes. Authors like Catherine Millet, Virginie Despentes, Catherine Breillat and Nelly Arcan opt for sexual liberty and concentrate their writing on the body that becomes the main expression of woman’s subjectivity. Nevertheless, they rest imprisoned by the stereotypes they fight against, and often favour the rhetoric of opposition, well out-of-date in comparison with queer theories.

Key words: pornography, eroticism, women’s writing, stereotypes, sexual liberation.

Citation rules

Swoboda, T. Constructions de la subjectivité dans la littérature érotique féminine. Romanica Silesiana, 8(1). Retrieved from https://journals.us.edu.pl/index.php/RS/article/view/5862

Vol. 8 No. 1 (2013)
Published:


ISSN: 1898-2433
eISSN: 2353-9887

Publisher
Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego | University of Silesia Press

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