Queer realms of memory : archiving LGBTQ sites and symbols in the French national narrative / edited by Siham Bouamer, Denis M. Provencher, and Ryan K. Schroth.

Other author Bouamer, Siham, editor.
Other author Provencher, Denis M., editor.
Other author Schroth, Ryan K., editor.
Format Book
PublicationLiverpool : Liverpool University Press, 2025.
Description387 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Subjects
Collective memory--France.
National characteristics, French.
Sexual minorities--France. --Social conditions.

Physical mediummonochrome
Physical mediumillustration
SeriesContemporary French and francophone cultures ;
Contemporary French and francophone cultures ; 109. ^A772988
Contents Introduction : Queering lieux de mémoire / Siahm Bouamer, Denis M. Provencher, and Ryan K. Schroth -- Presenting the present : queer memories beyond same-sex marriage / Bruno Perreau -- Queer memory takes a monumental turn : commemorating Bruno Lenoir and Jean Diot / Stephen Shapiro -- The monument and the anti-monument : aesthetic strategies for remembering two crises from French LGBTQ history / Scott Gunther -- Queer experiences in Parisian collèges between 1869 and 1873 / Michael Rosenfeld and Clive Thomson -- Archiving queer France : Constructing a community at th eintersection of history and memory / Andrew Israel Ross -- Paris, erotic capital of the nineteenth century : the The tournée des grands-ducs and the emergence of queer lieux de m̌moire during the Third Republic / Leslie Choquette -- From the Marais to collective memory : how to map queer France / Kory Olson -- Carving out space in the city : LGBTQ+ pride as a queer lieu de mémoire / Luke L. Eilderts -- Queering the périph' : new sites for queer memory in contemporary French cinema / James S. Williams -- Cult graves and queer memory / Melanie C. Hawthorne -- Abdellah Ta̐a's transfilial memories of Genet's tomb in Larache / Denis M. Provencher -- The Chevalier d'Eon / Todd W. Reeser -- (Re-)defining the popular music "Gay icon" in media coverage of Dalida and Mylène Farmer / Chris Tinker -- Giovanna Rincon and Acceptess-T : living archives of transgender solidarity in an age of homonationalism / Blase A. Provitola -- Archives of desire : viewing cinéma colonial as a queer lieu de mémoire / Barry Nevin -- Le lieu de drague comme lieu de m̌moire, or cruising, cinema, and colonial vestiges / Jules O'Dwyer -- A queer rewriting of history : the case of Le̐la Slimani's Le Pays des autres / Maxime Foerster -- Fatima Daas's La Petite Dernière (2020): A fugitive lieux de mémoire for the undercommons / Siham Bouamer -- Emotional geographies, queer realms of memory : act Up-Paris and 120 battements par minute (2017) / Ryan K. Schroth -- Haunted sites and haunted memories : HIV/AIDS temporalities in the contemporary French cultural memory / Daniel N. Maroun -- Cases Rebelles : the archipelagic and transnational construction of Black queer sites of memory / Michaëla Danjé -- Podcasting as a queer archival method for an intersectional French culture / Thomas Muzart -- Bodies, memories, visibility : Élisabeth Lebovici's digital reinscription of lesbians in the French visual arts / Cristina Johnston.
Abstract "Pierre Nora's concept 'lieux de mémoire' (realms of memory) has become arguably the most significant academic point of reference when discussing processes of nation-building and their interconnectedness with history and collective memory. Although his theory has acquired popularity well beyond its application to the French context, his influential seven-volume series (1984-92) is not without its own shortcomings and failures, which have only occasionally been exposed over the last two decades. It is not until the recent publication of Postcolonial Realms of Memory (Liverpool University Press, 2020) that we see an expansive critique of Nora's own selective memory. Our project seeks to continue challenging Nora's approach and France's national narrative by providing space to examine queer lives, cultures and memories. We contend however that those related to queer experiences within France's collective memory have almost never been addressed. Queer Realms of Memory is the first book-length study to question Nora's lack of engagement with queer French and Francophone cultures and histories"-- Page 4 of cover.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
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