PhD grants : Writings of women’s sexualities and freedom practices in contemporary Francophone literature (H&L)

• Keywords

literature, gender studies, writers, women, francophone, contemporary

• Profile and skills required

Master French Literature

Agrégation Lettres Modernes

Gender studies

contemporary Francophone literature

• Project description

The research focuses on representations of sexuality at work in the narratives of contemporary Francophone women. At the turn of the 21st century, more and more writers describe the experience of intimacy, giving a large place to descriptions of active and explicit sexuality. A whole literature – often autofictional – aims to perform a form of sexual life, reshaping the female subject through the narrative of experiences such as sex work, the discovery of desire or the affirmation of homosexuality.

• References

Nelly Arcan, Putain (Éd. du Seuil, 2001) ; Anne Archet, Le Carnet écarlate. Fragments érotiques lesbiens (Éd. du remue-ménage, 2014), Emma Becker, La Maison (Flammarion, 2019) ; Fatima Daas, La Petite Dernière (Noir sur blanc, 2020) ; Marie Darrieussecq, Clèves (P.O.L, 2011) ; Constance Debré, Playboy (Stock, 2018), Love me tender (Flammarion, 2020) ; Chloé Delaume, Les Mouflettes d’Atropos (Farrago, 2000) ; Annie Ernaux, Mémoire de fille (Gallimard 2016) ; Catherine Millet, La Vie sexuelle de Catherine M. (Éd. du Seuil, 2001).

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