Contemporary French and Francophone Studies/Sites

Volume 6, Issue 1

Eroticisms/Erotismes

Spring 2002

Guest Co-Editor: Gerald Prince

Cover photo by Richard Lewis

Interviews
Catherine Breillat--The Absolute Opacity of Intimacy
Mathieu Belezi--The Emotions of the Flesh: Crue (The Swell)

Photography
Photos by Tadeusz Paczula
Presented by Ernst Bens

Articles and Essays
Jarrod Hayes--Barthes' Campy Fag Love
Gwen Wells--Accoutrements of Passion: Fashion, Irony, and Feminine P.O.V. in Catherine Breillat's Romance
Lydie Moudileno--Pas de romance sans finance: la construction du couple moderne dans les romans sentimentaux de l'Afrique de l'Ouest
Richard Stamelman--The Eros—and Thanantos—of Scents
Jean-Paul Guichard--"La mariée mise à nu par...": Corps de femmes, regards de femmes dans la littérature au tournant du siècle
Melisse Lafrance--Uncertain Erotic: A Foucauldian Reading of Herculine Barbin dite Alexina B
Gaëtan Brulotte--L'ars erotica de l'Occident
Lynn Huffer--Masturbating Dykes: Cixous, Irigaray, Leduc
Michel Jarrety--La femme et le pantin — un érotisme du défi
Larry Schehr--Writing Bareback
Christine Fiszer-Guinard--D'un "site" à l'autre
Nicholas Hanlon--Is There a Sadean Eroticism at the Heart of Baudrillard?

Questionnaire

Eroticism, or what could be called "the erotic effect" seems to be posited on a certain degree of opacity, of concealment, of ambivalence. In view of this, how can we explain its proliferation in an age of post-modern transparency and an ethic of full disclosure?

Fiction & Poetry
Béatrice Libert--Petite mort/Little Death
Françoise Rey: Introduction, Jouissance et extase/Pleasure and Ecstasy