Tordre les archives (queering archives) : oui, mais dans quel sens ?
The back and forth between epistemological questioning, political positioning, and affective experiences allows me to unpack several directions of the project of queering the archive. Michael Rosenfeld's edition of letters sent by an invert to Émile Zola and Dr. Saint-Paul at the end of the 19t...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | fra |
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Association Genres, sexualités, langage
2021-12-01
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| Series: | Glad! |
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| Online Access: | https://journals.openedition.org/glad/3255 |
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| Summary: | The back and forth between epistemological questioning, political positioning, and affective experiences allows me to unpack several directions of the project of queering the archive. Michael Rosenfeld's edition of letters sent by an invert to Émile Zola and Dr. Saint-Paul at the end of the 19th century is, in this article, the occasion to identify a number of transformations in my relationship to the queer past, by distinguishing three ways of reading these letters that I have developed though my research. The project of a History of Sexual Minorities aims at discovering and rescuing the queer voices of the past, and seeks to do them justice in order to inspire the liberation struggles of the present. A reading of the archive against the grain tends instead to identify the devices of power and the mechanisms of censorship that constitute and delimit the queer archive, its losses and resistances. Reading along the grain finally makes room for the otherness and contradictions of a subaltern perverse past, which cannot be assimilated to the contemporary narratives of liberal and nationalist democracies. I defend here the idea that queering the archives constitutes an ethical orientation, seeking to resist contemporary homo-nationalist calls, as well as the separation of the history of sexuality from that of the French colonial empire. |
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| ISSN: | 2551-0819 |