Sexuality, Iconography, and Fiction in French Queering the Martyr /

• Main Author: Hartford, Jason James (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Subjects: Comparative literature.; European literature.; Gender identity-Religious aspects.; Queer theory.; Comparative Literature.; European Literature.; Religion and Gender.; Queer Theory.

This book explores the modern cultural history of the queer martyr in France and Belgium. By analyzing how popular writers in French responded to Catholic doctrine and the tradition of St. Sebastian in art, Queering the Martyr shows how religious and secular symbols overlapped to produce not one, bu...

Table of Contents:

• 1 Introduction: Queering the Martyr
• 2 A Cultural History of Queer Martyrs
• 3  Flaubert's Queer Revelation
• 4  Narrative, Icon, and Polemic: Eekhoud.-  5 Modern Archetypes: Artaud and Genet
• 6   Queer Allegories: Tournier and Hocquenghem
• 7  Conclusion: Reckoning the Queer Martyr.