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9780934223973

Body [in] Parts : Bodies and Identity in Sade and Guibert

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  • ISBN13:

    9780934223973

  • ISBN10:

    0934223971

  • Edition: 1st
  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2008-04-30
  • Publisher: Associated Univ Pr
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Summary

Body [in] Parts: Bodies and Identity in Sade and Guibert explores the link between Herve Guibert, one of France's most provocative contemporary writers who died of AIDS in 1991, and the Marquis de Sade, the most notorious Enlightenment libertine. In both authors bodies lose their corporeality. They are denied a history through shifting biographies and autobiographies, then lose their physical reality in time. Bodies are objectified and mechanized before being cut up or imprisoned as a way to dehumanize them. Ultimately they become ghosts who haunt the texts. Guilbert incorporates Sade into his won works: Sade's staged, brutalized, destroyed bodies become in Guibert unmasked, sexually fantasized, and diseased.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgmentsp. 7
Introductionp. 11
Irresistible Biographiesp. 24
Sexual Performance: Staging and Watching Bodies in the Actp. 46
Counting the Days: Hiding and Seeking to Pass the Timep. 67
Imprisoned Bodies / Liberating Narrativesp. 88
Disappearing Act: Bodies Dissected, Ghostly Remainsp. 107
Bodies in/as Evidence: Conclusionp. 126
Notesp. 135
Bibliographyp. 153
Indexp. 160
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