Virginie Despentes et les récits de la violence sexuelle : une déconstruction littéraire et féministe des rhétoriques de la racialisation

In the  contemporary collective imagination, the suburbs [banlieues] epitomise masculine domination, contrasting with a society which thus appears free from sexism. As a result, creating racialized characters can confront both the salience of racist journalistic stereotypes and the intrumentalizatio...

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Main Author: Virginie Sauzon
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Language:fra
Published: Genre, Sexualité et Société 2012-06-01
Series:Genre, Sexualité et Société
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Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/gss/2328
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description In the  contemporary collective imagination, the suburbs [banlieues] epitomise masculine domination, contrasting with a society which thus appears free from sexism. As a result, creating racialized characters can confront both the salience of racist journalistic stereotypes and the intrumentalization of feminist discourse. Hence, this article focuses on the essay and fiction of Virginie Despentes, a major, yet controversial, figure in contemporary French feminism. By placing rape and sexism at the centre of her work, Despentes challenges racializing rhetoric in order to reassert the systemic, non-categorical, aspect of male domination. Rather than charging only individuals, and far from validating hypocritical securitarian discourse, Virginie Despentes’s texts contribute to the current debate in contemporary feminism in order to put an end to collaboration with racist ideologies through the voice, empowerment, and moral independence of the feminine subject.  
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Virginie Despentes et les récits de la violence sexuelle : une déconstruction littéraire et féministe des rhétoriques de la racialisation
Genre, Sexualité et Société
feminism
discourse analysis
rape
racism
Virginie Despentes
title Virginie Despentes et les récits de la violence sexuelle : une déconstruction littéraire et féministe des rhétoriques de la racialisation
title_full Virginie Despentes et les récits de la violence sexuelle : une déconstruction littéraire et féministe des rhétoriques de la racialisation
title_fullStr Virginie Despentes et les récits de la violence sexuelle : une déconstruction littéraire et féministe des rhétoriques de la racialisation
title_full_unstemmed Virginie Despentes et les récits de la violence sexuelle : une déconstruction littéraire et féministe des rhétoriques de la racialisation
title_short Virginie Despentes et les récits de la violence sexuelle : une déconstruction littéraire et féministe des rhétoriques de la racialisation
title_sort virginie despentes et les recits de la violence sexuelle une deconstruction litteraire et feministe des rhetoriques de la racialisation
topic feminism
discourse analysis
rape
racism
Virginie Despentes
url https://journals.openedition.org/gss/2328
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