Keywords
critical queer theories
sexuality and space
third wave of feminism in France
urban novel
geopoetics
How to Cite
Abstract
The article is an attempt to investigate the contemporary creativity
of the French, third wave feminist, and novel writer Virginie Despentes with a focus
on changes taking place in her work over the last twenty years. The first part shows
the scope of the early phase of her artistic activity, which, on the main level, deals with
specific issues in the French culture of the last decade of the past century, especially
those taking place in relation to the reconfiguration of the French literary field
in the middle of the 1990s. Of particular importance are changes in approaches
of those who were excluded or marginalized because of their race/gender/class
position (most often femininists), including issues of self-representation and
the appearance of the trash literature trend.
The second part of the article takes as its goal enhancing the queer aspect
of Despentes’ last project. It analyses Apocalypse bébé on the basis of geopoetical
instrumentarium and presents information concerning the spatio-temporal dimensions
of the (non)normative identities of the main characters. The authors construction
of the urban chronotope of Paris and Barcelona is considered from a critical
queer theory perspective, leading to the thesis of a specific utopian turn taking place
in Despentes’ last novel.
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