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L'Inadaptee d'Argelouse: Examining Queerness, Alterity, and Silence in Therese Desqueyroux by Francois Mauriac

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Women have taken center stage in French literature for centuries as central protagonists in the struggle for self-definition. Female characters typically struggle under oppressive and repressive gender roles enforced by strict social norms, the lack of property rights in inheritance, and the difficulty in finding gainful employment to provide for a measure of their own autonomy. By examining Francois Mauriac’s Thérèse Desqueyroux (1927), we find ways in which Thérèse attempts to resist the lot given to her and fight back to gain a chance at self-determination. This study examines the language employed by the author to describe the repression and resilience of this woman, the use of poison as a means to resist patriarchal structures, how patriarchal oppression is portrayed as toxic, the ways in which the repressed sexuality of Thérèse is portrayed in the novel versus the film, and the ways in which her society attempts to resist the autonomy she tries to assert.
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2024-09
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Attribution 4.0 International
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http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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