Troubler le protocole de dépucelage : désir, subjectivité sexuelle et autisme dans Mon père m’a donné un mari de Emmanuelle Bayamack-Tam

This paper investigates the under-examined play, Mon père m’a donné un mari, written by French author Emmanuelle Bayamack-Tam. The play centres around sixteen-year-old Alexandrine who is identified as Asperger and who masturbates in front of her...

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Main Author: Eftihia Mihelakis
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Jagiellonian University Press 2024-12-01
Series:Romanica Cracoviensia
Online Access: https://ejournals.eu/czasopismo/romanica-cracoviensia/artykul/troubler-le-protocole-de-depucelage-desir-subjectivite-sexuelle-et-autisme-dans-mon-pere-ma-donne-un-mari-de-emmanuelle-bayamack-tam
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description This paper investigates the under-examined play, Mon père m’a donné un mari, written by French author Emmanuelle Bayamack-Tam. The play centres around sixteen-year-old Alexandrine who is identified as Asperger and who masturbates in front of her parents. We argue that by focusing on an epistemic framework intersecting literary studies with Mad/SickGirl Studies, we can explain how Alexandrine’s parents confine her in what we call a “heteronormative corset”, a parentally-informed virginity loss protocol which is entwined with ableist and adult-centric stereotypes. We then address the unravelling of this protocol by insisting that at the core of Alexandrine’s “sick/mad language” there is a queer sexual subjectivity that troubles this protocol of virginity loss as the single-most defining experience marking the end of girlhood.
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spelling doaj-art-bd3d9208135448bc812c2441719a80b82024-12-13T10:08:37ZengJagiellonian University PressRomanica Cracoviensia1732-87052084-39172024-12-01Tom 24 (2024)229530510.4467/20843917RC.24.023.20420Troubler le protocole de dépucelage : désir, subjectivité sexuelle et autisme dans Mon père m’a donné un mari de Emmanuelle Bayamack-TamEftihia Mihelakis0https://orcid.org/0009-0009-4531-0719 Brandon University This paper investigates the under-examined play, Mon père m’a donné un mari, written by French author Emmanuelle Bayamack-Tam. The play centres around sixteen-year-old Alexandrine who is identified as Asperger and who masturbates in front of her parents. We argue that by focusing on an epistemic framework intersecting literary studies with Mad/SickGirl Studies, we can explain how Alexandrine’s parents confine her in what we call a “heteronormative corset”, a parentally-informed virginity loss protocol which is entwined with ableist and adult-centric stereotypes. We then address the unravelling of this protocol by insisting that at the core of Alexandrine’s “sick/mad language” there is a queer sexual subjectivity that troubles this protocol of virginity loss as the single-most defining experience marking the end of girlhood. https://ejournals.eu/czasopismo/romanica-cracoviensia/artykul/troubler-le-protocole-de-depucelage-desir-subjectivite-sexuelle-et-autisme-dans-mon-pere-ma-donne-un-mari-de-emmanuelle-bayamack-tam
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Troubler le protocole de dépucelage : désir, subjectivité sexuelle et autisme dans Mon père m’a donné un mari de Emmanuelle Bayamack-Tam
Romanica Cracoviensia
title Troubler le protocole de dépucelage : désir, subjectivité sexuelle et autisme dans Mon père m’a donné un mari de Emmanuelle Bayamack-Tam
title_full Troubler le protocole de dépucelage : désir, subjectivité sexuelle et autisme dans Mon père m’a donné un mari de Emmanuelle Bayamack-Tam
title_fullStr Troubler le protocole de dépucelage : désir, subjectivité sexuelle et autisme dans Mon père m’a donné un mari de Emmanuelle Bayamack-Tam
title_full_unstemmed Troubler le protocole de dépucelage : désir, subjectivité sexuelle et autisme dans Mon père m’a donné un mari de Emmanuelle Bayamack-Tam
title_short Troubler le protocole de dépucelage : désir, subjectivité sexuelle et autisme dans Mon père m’a donné un mari de Emmanuelle Bayamack-Tam
title_sort troubler le protocole de depucelage desir subjectivite sexuelle et autisme dans mon pere m a donne un mari de emmanuelle bayamack tam
url https://ejournals.eu/czasopismo/romanica-cracoviensia/artykul/troubler-le-protocole-de-depucelage-desir-subjectivite-sexuelle-et-autisme-dans-mon-pere-ma-donne-un-mari-de-emmanuelle-bayamack-tam
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