Marie-Claire Barnet

Ce livre s'inscrit dans la mouvance de la relecture récente dont le surréalisme a fait l'objet. Le fil conducteur est une analyse de la subversion surréaliste au féminin, à travers les oeuvres de Lise Deharme, Joyce Mansour et Gisèle Prassinos. Tout en respectant les différences entre les oeuvres, cette étude révèle un curieux leitmotiv: les trois auteurs portent un accent nouveau sur l'ambiguïté de l'identité sexuelle et des rôles masculin-féminin. La femme cent sexes ou les genres communicants s'adresse de façon originale à la question du «groupe surréaliste» et réinterroge ce qu'on a pu nommer le «sexisme» des écrivains et artistes masculins, en soulignant toute la problématique de la double subversion, à savoir la subversion au féminin de la subversion surréaliste. Un dialogue est établi entre les femmes écrivains, les artistes surréalistes et les théories psychanalytiques et féministes. L'auteur propose donc une nouvelle approche et d'autres questions pour les études du surréalisme, en écho aux débats actuels sur l'histoire du mouvement.

Deharme, Mansour, Prassinos

La femme cent sexes ou les genres communicants

Eric Robertson

Nigel Saint

« Ce n'est pas la poésie qui doit être libre, c'est le poète. » A legendary figure within the Surrealist movement, Robert Desnos (1900-1945) has left a unique legacy as a poet of distinction, as a 'dormeur éveillé' revered by his fellow Surrealists, and as a free spirit par excellence. In celebrating Desnos's unique creative voice, this book re-evaluates his prominence within and beyond the Surrealist movement, reappraises his status as a poet, and sheds new light on his contribution to the literary and cultural life of his age. The essays in the volume reflect the ongoing vitality and relevance of Desnos's poetry and the originality of his contribution to the various other forms of expression in which he excelled: journalism, short stories, script-writing and song-writing. Desnos's extensive writings on art and artists, his active involvement in avant-garde film and his close associations with a number of renowned painters are also addressed. This fresh look at Desnos's activities and contexts includes an interview with the artist Georges Malkine's daughter, Fern Malkine-Falvey, and a study of the memoirs of Desnos's wife, Youki. The volume closes with a rare collection of journalistic writings by Desnos which appeared in Le Soir in the late 1920s and have never appeared in print since their original publication.

Robert Desnos

Edward Welch

'Famille, je vous ai (encore et toujours à l'esprit?), je vous aime un peu, beaucoup, ou je vous hais énormément?' What are families like in contemporary France? And what begins to emerge when we consider them from the point of view of recent theoretical perspectives: (faulty) cohesion, (fake) coherence, (carefully planned or subversive) deconstruction, loss (of love, confidence or credibility), or, even (utter) chaos and (alarming) confusion? Which media revamp old stereotypes, generate alternative reinterpretations, and imply more ambiguous answers? What images, scenes or frames stand out in contemporary representations of the family? Uneasy contradictions and ambiguities emerge in this bilingual collection of approaches and genre studies. The family plot seems to thicken as family ties appear to loosen. Has 'the family' been lost from sight, or is it being reinvented in our collective imaginary? This book proposes a new series of perspectives and questions on an old and 'familiar' topic, exploring the state and status of the family in contemporary literature, culture, critical and psychoanalytic theory and sociology.

Marie-Claire Barnet

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