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Nelly Arcan : la prostitution et la politique sexuelle dans Putain

Cette &#x00E9;tude analyse la dynamique de la prostitution et de la politique sexuelle telle que d&#x00E9;peinte dans Putain de Nelly Arcan dans le but de cerner l'exp&#x00E9;rience prostitutionnelle int&#x00E9;grale du sujet narratif, une prostitu&#x00E9;e nomm&#x00E9;e Cynthia. Notre analyse s'&#x00E9;tend sur trois plans dont l'ordre pr&#x00E9;sente une gradation menant de l'espace priv&#x00E9; du rapport prostitutionnel &#x00E0; la sph&#x00E8;re publique sociale. Ainsi, nous examinons d'abord le statut que la narratrice occupe dans le cadre du milieu de la prostitution. Nous sondons ensuite les divers ph&#x00E9;nom&#x00E8;nes socio-culturels et psychologiques qui servent comme force motrice du choix de m&#x00E9;tier de prostitu&#x00E9;e chez Arcan. Pour ce faire, nous analysons en premier lieu le microcosme social de la famille qui a d&#x00E9;clench&#x00E9; chez la narratrice la d&#x00E9;marche prostitutionnelle. Finalement, nous comptons rep&#x00E9;rer le rapport entre l'&#x00E9;tat soumis de la prostitu&#x00E9;e dans Putain et l'oppression historique de la femme dans l'ensemble de la soci&#x00E9;t&#x00E9; patriarcale du type capitaliste. Compte tenu des divers discours patriarcaux abord&#x00E9;s dans Putain et de l'attitude contestataire adopt&#x00E9;e par la narratrice elle-m&#x00EA;me envers ces discours, nous avons jug&#x00E9; essentiel d'orienter notre recherche ainsi que l'&#x00E9;tude du texte d'Arcan selon une perspective interdisciplinaire d'ordre f&#x00E9;ministe. </P><P> This study analyzes the dynamics of prostitution and sexual politics as depicted in Putain, by Nelly Arcan, in order to explore the integral prostitutional experience of the narrator, a prostitute named Cynthia. Our threefold analysis presents a gradation that leads from the private place of the prostitutional relationship to the public social sphere. Thus, we examine first the status that the narrator occupies in the framework of the milieu of prostitution. Then, we probe the diverse socio-cultural and psychological phenomenon that serve as motivational forces to the choice of becoming a prostitute, as depicted in Arcan's work. In order to do this, we firstly analyze the family as a social microcosm that has provoked the narrator's path to prostitution. Finally, we seek to identify the relationship between the submission of the prostitute in Putain and the historic oppression of women in patriarchal capitalist society. Given the diverse patriarchal discourses addressed in Putain and the questioning attitude that the narrator herself adopts towards these discourses, it was deemed appropriate to conduct our research, as well as the study of Arcan's text, according to an interdisciplinary feminist perspective.</P>

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:USASK/oai:usask.ca:etd-12202005-204821
Date21 December 2005
CreatorsPuhl, Andrea
ContributorsJaeck, Lois, Hynes, Peter, Da Silva, Helena, Clarke, Marie-Diane
PublisherUniversity of Saskatchewan
Source SetsUniversity of Saskatchewan Library
LanguageEnglish
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