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"Deux cents mots et un gros marteau."Virginie Despentes's Skillful Construction of an Authorial Posture
- Rocky Mountain Review
- Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association
- Volume 72, Number 1, Spring 2018
- pp. 125-145
- 10.1353/rmr.2018.0006
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Abstract:
This essay identifies and analyses the specific ways in which this female French writer and film maker has created herself as an author out of a biographical focus on her life as a sex worker and rape victim. Relying on the notion of "posture" which I tie in with art sociology and discourse analysis as developed by Pierre Bourdieu and revised by Alain Viala and Jérôme Meizos, I show how Despentes' authorial posture regulates the transgressive readings of her works.