Cette étude analyse la dynamique de la prostitution et de la politique sexuelle telle que dépeinte dans Putain de Nelly Arcan dans le but de cerner l'expérience prostitutionnelle intégrale du sujet narratif, une prostituée nommée Cynthia. Notre analyse s'étend sur trois plans dont l'ordre présente une gradation menant de l'espace privé du rapport prostitutionnel à la sphère 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 phénomènes socio-culturels et psychologiques qui servent comme force motrice du choix de métier de prostituée chez Arcan. Pour ce faire, nous analysons en premier lieu le microcosme social de la famille qui a déclenché chez la narratrice la démarche prostitutionnelle. Finalement, nous comptons repérer le rapport entre l'état soumis de la prostituée dans Putain et l'oppression historique de la femme dans l'ensemble de la société patriarcale du type capitaliste. Compte tenu des divers discours patriarcaux abordés dans Putain et de l'attitude contestataire adoptée par la narratrice elle-même envers ces discours, nous avons jugé essentiel d'orienter notre recherche ainsi que l'étude du texte d'Arcan selon une perspective interdisciplinaire d'ordre féministe. </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>
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:LACETR/oai:collectionscanada.gc.ca:SSU.etd-12202005-204821 |
| Date | 21 December 2005 |
| Creators | Puhl, Andrea |
| Contributors | Jaeck, Lois, Hynes, Peter, Da Silva, Helena, Clarke, Marie-Diane |
| Publisher | University of Saskatchewan |
| Source Sets | Library and Archives Canada ETDs Repository / Centre d'archives des thèses électroniques de Bibliothèque et Archives Canada |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Source | http://library.usask.ca/theses/available/etd-12202005-204821/ |
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