Drague et cruising
In French gay culture, drague means cruising: looking for anonymous and casual sexual partners. This paper, by respectively examining the metaphorical underpinnings of both words, French and English, throws doubt on the validity of this translation. Through a phenomenological and geographical pe...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | fra |
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Pôle de Recherche pour l'Organisation et la diffusion de l'Information Géographique
2008-04-01
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| Series: | EchoGéo |
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| Online Access: | https://journals.openedition.org/echogeo/3663 |
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| Summary: | In French gay culture, drague means cruising: looking for anonymous and
casual sexual partners. This paper, by respectively examining the
metaphorical underpinnings of both words, French and English, throws
doubt on the validity of this translation. Through a phenomenological
and geographical perspective, it attempts to give a nuanced examination
of the practice and experience that each word conceals. The aim is to
identify two figures embodied in a same person: the dragueur and the
cruiser. I will argue that the distinction mainly rests on the
opposition that Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari establish between ‘striated space’ and ‘smooth space’. The concluding theorical
discussion is an attempt to understand what, in the tension between sexualization of space and eroticization of movement, guides the scripts of drague and cruising. |
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| ISSN: | 1963-1197 |