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Pederasty and/as Narrative Form: André Gide's Queer Coinages
- French Forum
- University of Pennsylvania Press
- Volume 45, Number 2, 2020
- pp. 155-169
- 10.1353/frf.2020.0013
- Article
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Abstract:
Reading André Gide's novel Les Faux-monnayeurs (1924) through the lens of Kadji Amin's recent reflections on the historiographically unsteady category of modern pederasty, this article aspires to an understanding of queer as a distinctly narrative model of playfully contrived identity formation. Attention to how queer identities are forged in Gide, and historically in his wake, I argue, will allow new insights into queer theory's perpetual efforts at self-(re)invention.