@misc{provencher_2023, title={Transnational Approaches to Language and Sexuality}, ISBN={9781789622713 9781789622560}, url={http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv33b9qff.29}, DOI={10.2307/j.ctv33b9qff.29}, journal={Transnational French Studies}, publisher={Liverpool University Press}, author={Provencher, Denis M.}, year={2023}, month={Oct}, pages={393–414} }
 @article{bouamer_provencher_2022, title={Introducing
            <i>CFC Intersections}, volume={1}, ISSN={2752-552X 2752-5538}, url={http://dx.doi.org/10.3828/cfci.2022.1}, DOI={10.3828/cfci.2022.1}, number={1}, journal={CFC Intersections}, publisher={Liverpool University Press}, author={Bouamer, Siham and Provencher, Denis M.}, year={2022}, month={Sep}, pages={1–12} }
 @book{provencher_bouamer_2021, place={Lanham, MD}, series={After the Empire: The Francophone World and Postcolonial France}, title={Abdellah Taïa’s Queer Migrations: Non-Places, Affect, and Temporalities}, ISBN={9781793644862}, publisher={Lexington Books}, year={2021}, collection={After the Empire: The Francophone World and Postcolonial France} }
 @inbook{provencher_2021, place={Lanham, MD}, title={Abdellah Taïa’s transfilial myth making and unfaithful realms of memory}, ISBN={9781793644862}, booktitle={Abdellah Taïa’s Queer Migrations: Non-Places, Affect, and Temporalities}, publisher={Lexington Books}, author={Provencher, Denis M.}, editor={Provencher, Denis M. and Bouamer, SihamEditors}, year={2021}, pages={219–255} }
 @misc{provencher_2021, title={Le sexe et ses doubles: (Homo)sexualités en postcolonie}, volume={21}, url={https://h-france.net/vol21reviews/vol21no37Provencher.pdf}, number={37}, journal={H-France Review}, author={Provencher, Denis M.Awondo}, year={2021}, month={Mar} }
 @article{bazgan_durand_provencher_2020, title={Contemporary French Civilization
            <i>
              <u>s
            
            : an introduction}, volume={45}, ISSN={0147-9156 2044-396X}, url={http://dx.doi.org/10.3828/cfc.2020.15}, DOI={10.3828/cfc.2020.15}, number={3-4}, journal={Contemporary French Civilization}, publisher={Liverpool University Press}, author={Bazgan, Nicoleta and Durand, Alain-Philippe and Provencher, Denis M.}, year={2020}, month={Dec}, pages={263–269} }
 @inbook{provencher_peterson_2020, title={Diasporic Sexual Citizenship: Queer Language, (Im)Possible Subjects, and Transfiliation}, ISBN={9780190212926 9780190212940}, url={http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190212926.013.36}, DOI={10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190212926.013.36}, abstractNote={Abstract}, booktitle={The Oxford Handbook of Language and Sexuality}, publisher={Oxford University Press}, author={Provencher, Denis M. and Peterson, David}, editor={Hall, Kira and Barrett, Edward R.Editors}, year={2020}, month={Jul} }
 @inbook{provencher_2020, place={Paris}, title={Trans/filiations épistémologiques: Ecrire la famille, la révolution et un nouveau Maroc dans ‘Lettre à ma famille’ et ‘Le chaouche’” = Epistemological Trans/filiations: Writing the family, revolution and a new Morocco in ‘Letter to my family’ and ‘The civil servant’}, booktitle={Abdellah Taïa. Poétique et politique du désir engagé = Abdellah Taïa. Poetics and Politics of Engaged Desire}, publisher={Editions Passage}, author={Provencher, Denis M.}, year={2020}, pages={229–243} }
 @article{provencher_2018, title={2Fik’s deal with the devil: a queer and
            <i>transfilial
            remix of “La chasse-galerie” at Montreal’s Festival TransAmérique}, volume={43}, ISSN={0147-9156 2044-396X}, url={http://dx.doi.org/10.3828/cfc.2018.28}, DOI={10.3828/cfc.2018.28}, number={3-4}, journal={Contemporary French Civilization}, publisher={Liverpool University Press}, author={Provencher, Denis M.}, year={2018}, month={Jan}, pages={487–495} }
 @article{batson_provencher_2018, title={Introduction: queer (again and again) in Quebec}, volume={43}, ISSN={0147-9156 2044-396X}, url={http://dx.doi.org/10.3828/cfc.2018.17}, DOI={10.3828/cfc.2018.17}, number={3-4}, journal={Contemporary French Civilization}, publisher={Liverpool University Press}, author={Batson, Charles R. and Provencher, Denis M.}, year={2018}, month={Jan}, pages={321–324} }
 @book{provencher_2018, title={Queer Maghrebi French}, ISBN={9781781383001 9781786944405}, url={http://dx.doi.org/10.5949/liverpool/9781781383001.001.0001}, DOI={10.5949/liverpool/9781781383001.001.0001}, abstractNote={This book investigates the lives and stories of queer Maghrebi and Maghrebi French men who moved to or grew up in contemporary France. It combines original French language data from my ethnographic fieldwork in France with a wide array of recent narratives and cultural productions including performance art and photography, films, novels, autobiographies, published letters, and other first-person essays to investigate how these queer men living in France and the diaspora stake claims to time and space, construct kinship, and imagine their own future. By closely examining empirical evidence from the lived experiences of these queer Maghrebi French-speakers, this book presents a variety of paths available to these men who articulate and pioneer their own sexual difference within their families of origin and contemporary French society. These sexual minorities of North African origin may explain their homosexuality in terms of a “modern coming out” narrative when living in France. Nevertheless, they are able to negotiate cultural hybridity and flexible language, temporalities, and filiations, that combine elements from a variety of discourses on family, honor, face-saving, the symbolic order of gender differences, gender equality, as well as the western and largely neoliberal constructs of individualism and sexual autonomy.}, publisher={Liverpool University Press}, author={Provencher, Denis M.}, year={2018}, month={Jan} }
 @inbook{provencher_2018, place={Lanham, MD}, title={“Je suis terroriste, pédé et le fils de Marilyn Monroe”: Cinematic Stars and Transfiliaton in Abdellah Taïa’s Infidèles (2012)}, booktitle={Paris and the Marginalized Author: Treachery, Alienation, Queerness, and Exile}, publisher={Lexington Books}, author={Provencher, Denis M.}, editor={Orlando, Valerie K. and Pears, Pamela A.Editors}, year={2018}, pages={153–166} }
 @misc{provencher_2017, title={Queer Theory: The French Response}, url={https://www.europenowjournal.org/2017/07/05/queer-theory-the-french-response-by-bruno-perreau/}, journal={EuropeNow: A Journal of Research & Art}, publisher={Council for European Studies (CES)}, author={Provencher, Denis M.}, year={2017}, month={Jul} }
 @article{provencher_2016, title={Farid’s impossible “je”}, volume={5}, ISSN={2211-3770 2211-3789}, url={http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/jls.5.1.05pro}, DOI={10.1075/jls.5.1.05pro}, abstractNote={In this essay, I analyze the speech acts of Farid, a thirty-six year old self-identified same-sex desiring man from my fieldwork, who recounts his trajectory from growing up in Algiers and his eventual migration as an adult to Angers and then Paris. I illustrate how his queer Maghrebi French story in the diaspora does not resonate significantly with the “coming out” (Provencher 2007) or “arrival” narratives (Schehr 2009) of other queer French speakers in the city. Moreover, his speech acts do not heavily echo the “flexible language” (Leap 2003) or the language of queer diasporic speakers analyzed in other contexts (Decena 2011, Manalansan 2003). Furthermore, unlike other queer Maghrebi French interlocutors — who exploit their artistic crafts such as photography, filmmaking, and creative writing to pioneer new scripts or “performative encounters” (Rosello 2005) between France and the Maghreb — Farid struggles to tell a coherent story as he remains caught between the teleologies of the Maghrebi family in Algiers on the one hand and neoliberalism and its concomitant homonormativity in “gay” Paris on the other. The linguistic dimensions of Farid’s impossible “je” [I] are evident in his use of statements that highlight the collective with the subject pronouns “we” and “they” as well as topic sentences that underscore subjects like “my family,” “the country,” and “my religion.” At the same time, he draws on fragmented and unstable identities in a series of disconnected “je” statements, often with conditional clauses and modality shifts that highlight flux instead of the ego-centered, liberated, and individual subject who must learn to say “je” assuredly in the indicative tense in the late modern era. At times, he remains an “impossible subject” in an “impossible location” (Raissiguier 2010) unable to find financial and emotional stability almost three years after leaving Algiers and arriving in France where he fails to imagine a “queer future” for himself. Hence, this study illustrates how the celebration of chaos and subversion (for example, Halberstam’s (2011) “queer art of failure”) is not always readily available to subjects like Farid, who have not (yet) acquired the “flexible language” or the economic and cultural capital in an urban setting.}, number={1}, journal={Journal of Language and Sexuality}, publisher={John Benjamins Publishing Company}, author={Provencher, Denis M.}, year={2016}, month={Feb}, pages={113–139} }
 @article{provencher_harris_bazgan_2016, title={Introduction:
            <i>Contemporary French Civilization
            at 40}, volume={41}, ISSN={0147-9156 2044-396X}, url={http://dx.doi.org/10.3828/cfc.2016.23}, DOI={10.3828/cfc.2016.23}, number={3-4}, journal={Contemporary French Civilization}, publisher={Liverpool University Press}, author={Provencher, Denis M. and Harris, Sue and Bazgan, Nicoleta}, year={2016}, month={Jan}, pages={359–363} }
 @article{batson_provencher_2016, title={Queer (Again) in Québec}, volume={61}, ISSN={0737-3759 2052-1731}, url={http://dx.doi.org/10.3828/qs.2016.7}, DOI={10.3828/qs.2016.7}, journal={Quebec Studies}, publisher={Liverpool University Press}, author={Batson, Charles R. and Provencher, Denis M.}, year={2016}, month={Jun}, pages={111–114} }
 @article{batson_provencher_2015, title={Feeling, Doing, Acting, Seeing, Being Queer in Québec: Michel Marc Bouchard, Rodrigue Jean, and the Queer Québec Colloquium}, volume={60}, ISSN={0737-3759 2052-1731}, url={http://dx.doi.org/10.3828/qs.2015.14}, DOI={10.3828/qs.2015.14}, journal={Quebec Studies}, publisher={Liverpool University Press}, author={Batson, Charles R. and Provencher, Denis M.}, year={2015}, month={Dec}, pages={3–22} }
 @inbook{provencher_pratt_2015, place={Paris}, title={Sami Bouajila: les mille et un visages du Français beur}, booktitle={Les écrans de l’intégration}, publisher={Presses universitaires de Vincennes}, author={Provencher, Denis M. and Pratt, Murray}, editor={Dumerlat, Sylvie and Swamy, VinayEditors}, year={2015}, pages={245–263} }
 @article{provencher_2014, title={Stepping back from queer theory: Language, fieldwork and the everyday in sexuality studies in France}, volume={25}, ISSN={0957-1558 1740-2352}, url={http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0957155814532201}, DOI={10.1177/0957155814532201}, abstractNote={In a 2012 special issue of French Cultural Studies, Didier Eribon urges French studies scholars to step back from critical theory, and in particular queer theory as it has emerged in cultural and literary studies. He is also particularly critical of a version of queer theory conjugated with psychoanalysis. For Eribon, cultural studies scholars and those working in sexuality studies should move away from the ‘master narrative’ of the family and (re)turn to the cultural, the social, the field and empirical evidence. Over the last 15 years, I have conducted fieldwork and ethnographic interviews with self-identified same-sex desiring men in France. Their life stories can be read at times through the Anglo-American lens of a gay-identified, Western coming-out narrative with a telos of ‘progress’ that involves moving from the closet to being ‘out’. At the same time, however, a queer linguistic approach can help us to read against the grain of several norms and hence provide us with a broader understanding of their lived experiences. In this essay, I present empirical language data from my interview with ‘Tahar’ one of my self-identified same-sex desiring Maghrebi and Maghrebi-French interlocutors to illustrate how his speech acts are situated at the crossroads of multiple discourses, temporalities, identities and traditions. As we shall see, Tahar’s story involves being ‘beur’, ‘being homosexual’ and ‘being fat’. This subject speaks back against the empire, against heteronormativity, and against corporeal norms. While a postcolonial critique based on a ‘postcolonial identity’ (looking at ethnicity or religion, for example) or a linguistic analysis based on ‘gay identity’ could be helpful here, my point is that a queer linguistic analysis – one that takes a position counter to the normative broadly defined by considering simultaneously multiple subaltern subject positions – could provide a better approach for those of us working in an interdisciplinary French cultural studies context.}, number={3-4}, journal={French Cultural Studies}, publisher={SAGE Publications}, author={Provencher, Denis M.}, year={2014}, month={Aug}, pages={408–417} }
 @article{provencher_2013, title={Introduction: Maghrebi-French Sexualities}, volume={21}, ISSN={0963-9489 1469-9869}, url={http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09639489.2013.776732}, DOI={10.1080/09639489.2013.776732}, abstractNote={This special issue of Modern & Contemporary France focuses on Maghrebi-French cultures and sexualities in contemporary France. It began as a series of papers presented as part of the conference panel ‘Intimate Sexual Spaces in Maghrebi-French Cultures’ at the Twentiethand Twenty-first Century French and Francophone Studies International Colloquium hosted by the University of Guelph (Canada) in 2010. Subsequent discussions and collaborations have now given rise to the following collection of essays that aim to ‘decline’ (Rosello 1998) several stereotypes related to the sexualities ofMaghrebi-Frenchmen and womenwho live their lives at the crossroads of different cultural, religious, and ideological traditions. By using sexuality through the analytical lenses of feminist, queer, post-colonial and political-economic theories, among others, we aim to expose the largely heteronormative nature of the ‘sexually democratic’ (Fassin and Surkis 2010) or ‘modern’ French state and its anti-immigration policies that go hand in hand with the policing of ‘archaic’ sexualities. By focusing on French citizens of North African descent, we draw attention to issues that are of particular importance to these post-colonial communities. Nevertheless, the politics of the state and the policing of sexualities in a ‘secular republic’ have consequences for all French citizens regardless of their cultural, religious, linguistic, or other background. During the Industrial Revolution and throughout the Trentes Glorieuses, several waves of European (i.e. Polish, Italian, Spanish, and Portuguese) populations migrated to France and faced their own forms of exclusion. North Africans migrated in large numbers to France at the height of the Trente Glorieuses and during the economic crisis of the 1970s, and have experienced and continue to experience markedmarginalization on linguistic, religious, cultural, economic, and spatial levels. One of the symptoms of their marginalization is that they are alleged to be more inassimilables than the aforementioned waves of immigrants (Noiriel 1988; Durmelat and Swamy 2011). Moreover, Islam has been depicted repeatedly as unchangeable and incompatible with}, number={2}, journal={Modern & Contemporary France}, publisher={Informa UK Limited}, author={Provencher, Denis M.}, year={2013}, month={May}, pages={139–146} }
 @article{provencher_2013, title={Ludovic-Mohamed Zahed’s performance of universal French citizenship and good Muslim brotherhood}, volume={24}, ISSN={0957-1558 1740-2352}, url={http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0957155813489090}, DOI={10.1177/0957155813489090}, abstractNote={ This article builds on scholarship in performance studies, anthropology, discourse analysis and French studies by examining the performative speech acts of self-identified Maghrebi-French queer men from my recent fieldwork in France. As a point of departure, I draw on José Estaban Muñoz’s notion of ‘disidentification’ (1999) and Mireille Rosello’s notion of ‘declining the stereotype’ (1998) to examine the strategies of resistance for Maghrebi-French queer speakers who ‘work on and against dominant ideology’ and who try ‘to transform cultural logic from within’ a dominant system of identification and assimilation (Muñoz, 1999: 11–12). In my analysis, I examine an interview with one of my Maghrebi-French interlocutors, Ludovic-Mohamed Zahed, founder of several French associations including Homosexuels musulmans de France (HM2F), and the author of Le Coran et la chair (2012), to show how his speech acts function simultaneously from within contemporary France – and its notion of laïcité – and from within Islam and the Prophet’s own dynamic approach to the Quran, to reinvent both the ‘universal French citizen’ and the ‘good Muslim brother’. Zahed’s story will help us to see how sexual and religious minorities must ‘straddle competing cultural traditions, memories, and material conditions’ and devise ‘a configuration of possible scripts of self/selves that shift according to the situation’ (Manalansan, 2003: x) in order to be heard in contemporary France by their families of origin, their fellow citizens and their Muslim brothers and sisters. }, number={3}, journal={French Cultural Studies}, publisher={SAGE Publications}, author={Provencher, Denis M.}, year={2013}, month={Jul}, pages={279–292} }
 @inbook{pratt_provencher_2011, title={(Re)Casting Sami Bouajla: An Ambiguous Model of Integration, Belonging, and Citizenship}, url={http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt1df4gr4.16}, DOI={10.2307/j.ctt1df4gr4.16}, booktitle={Screening Integration}, publisher={UNP - Nebraska Paperback}, author={Pratt, Murray and Provencher, Denis M.}, editor={Durmelat, Sylvie and Swamy, VinayEditors}, year={2011}, pages={194–210} }
 @article{provencher_2011, title={Coming Out<i>à l'oriental</i>: Maghrebi-French Performances of Gender, Sexuality, and Religion}, volume={58}, ISSN={0091-8369 1540-3602}, url={http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00918369.2011.581924}, DOI={10.1080/00918369.2011.581924}, abstractNote={In this article, I examine issues of gender, sexuality, and religion for North African (Maghrebi)-French men in contemporary France. I introduce performance artist-photographer “2Fik,” one of the Maghrebi-French research subjects from my 2010 fieldwork, and examine excerpts of his particular coming out story to his parents and situate it in relation to recent work on homosexuality in the housing projects of France's banlieues [suburban neighborhoods] (Chaumont, 2009; Naït-Balk, 2009). The interviewee's narrative interweaves a variety of discourses and imagery that help distinguish his experience from those found in those publications as well as in recent scholarship on sexuality, citizenship, and transnationalism (Cruz-Malavé & Manalansan, 2000; Hayes, 2000; Leap & Boellstorff, 2004; Patton & Sánchez-Eppler, 2000; Provencher, 2007a). I argue that 2Fik's story and photography provide him a unique voice that draws on feminist and queer perspectives—informed by both reformed Islam and contemporary Western values—to “decline” (Rosello, 1998) and rewrite longstanding stereotypes of Islam in France. In fact, by acting as a “citizen-photographer” (Möller, 2010), 2Fik successfully declines stereotypes including the absent Muslim father, the veiled woman, and the symbolic violence associated with heteronormativity and traditional masculinity in Maghrebi-French families.}, number={6-7}, journal={Journal of Homosexuality}, publisher={Informa UK Limited}, author={Provencher, Denis M.}, year={2011}, month={Jul}, pages={812–833} }
 @article{leap_provencher_2011, title={Language Matters: An Introduction}, volume={58}, ISSN={0091-8369 1540-3602}, url={http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00918369.2011.581906}, DOI={10.1080/00918369.2011.581906}, abstractNote={That language and sexuality are closely connected is one of the enduring themes in human sexuality research. The articles in this special issue of the Journal of Homosexuality explore some of these language-centered insights as they apply to same-sex related desires, identities, and practices and to other dimensions of non-normative sexual experiences. The articles address language use over a range of geographic and social locations. The linguistic practices discussed are diverse, including the language associated with Santería, comments viewers make about gay pornography, homophobic discourse, coming out stories, stories where declarations of sexual identity are tacitly withheld, sexual messages in Black hip hop culture, assessments of urban AIDS ministries, and policies that limit transgender subjects' access to urban space. Taken together, these articles demonstrate that language matters in the everyday experience of sexual sameness and they model some of the approaches that are now being explored in language and sexuality studies.}, number={6-7}, journal={Journal of Homosexuality}, publisher={Informa UK Limited}, author={Leap, William L. and Provencher, Denis M.}, year={2011}, month={Jul}, pages={709–718} }
 @article{provencher_2010, title={'I Dislike Politicians and Homosexuals'}, volume={4}, ISSN={1747-633X 1747-6321}, url={http://dx.doi.org/10.1558/genl.v4i2.287}, DOI={10.1558/genl.v4i2.287}, abstractNote={In this essay, I examine the pragmatic and social semiotic aspects of recent hate speech against French politicians and homosexuals. In part one I analyze the discourse surrounding the 2002 stabbing of Paris mayor Bertrand Delanoë in which his assailant Azedine Berkane expressed dislike for ‘politicians and homosexuals.’ The French media and authorities generally did not frame this as a ‘homophobic act’ and ignored any potentially logical association between the two terms (i.e. ‘politicians’ and ‘homosexuals’). In order to better understand his statement, I examine Berkane’s act in relation to what other spectators and participants said about it both immediately following the event and sometime after its occurrence. In part two of the essay, I link Berkane’s homophobic statement to a broader French semiotic system and set of textual practices including several examples of hate speech that occurred during an attack on Bègles mayor Noël Mamère. I analyze representative examples of hate speech received by Mamère when he performed the first and only gay marriage in France in 2004. By examining examples of hate speech from the ‘Mamère Affair,’ it is possible to gain a better understanding of the ideological underpinnings of Berkane’s seemingly illogical statement in the ‘Delanoë Affair’}, number={2}, journal={Gender and Language}, publisher={Equinox Publishing}, author={Provencher, Denis M.}, year={2010}, month={Jul}, pages={287–321} }
 @misc{provencher_2009, title={Algeria in France: Transpolitics, Race and Nation}, volume={33}, number={1}, journal={Contemporary French Civilization}, author={Provencher, Denis M.}, year={2009}, pages={241–244} }
 @article{provencher_2009, title={Running Scared: masculinity and the representation of the male body}, volume={29}, ISSN={0143-9685 1465-3451}, url={http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/01439680902890852}, DOI={10.1080/01439680902890852}, abstractNote={Running Scared: masculinity and the representation of the male body PETER LEHMAN Detroit, Wayne State University Press, 2007 (2nd edition) xiv+262 pp., illus., notes, bibliography, index, $34.95 (p...}, number={2}, journal={Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television}, publisher={Informa UK Limited}, author={Provencher, Denis M.}, year={2009}, month={Jun}, pages={260–262} }
 @misc{provencher_2008, title={Integrating Islam: Political and Religious Challenges in Contemporary France}, volume={32}, number={1}, journal={Contemporary French Civilization}, author={Provencher, Denis M.}, year={2008}, pages={223–226} }
 @inbook{provencher_2008, title={One in Ten: Teaching Tolerance for (Class) Difference, Ambiguity, and Queerness in the Intercultural Classroom}, booktitle={Resilience: Queer Professors from the Working Class}, publisher={State University of New York Press}, author={Provencher, Denis M.}, editor={Johnson, Richard, III and Oldfield, KennethEditors}, year={2008}, pages={63–81} }
 @article{provencher_2008, title={Sartre, Self-Formation and Masculinities}, volume={37}, ISSN={1527-2095}, url={http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/sub.0.0009}, DOI={10.1353/sub.0.0009}, abstractNote={Boulé, Jean-Pierre. Sartre, Self-Formation and Masculinities. Oxford: Berghahn Books 2005. In his latest book, Jean-Pierre Boulé provides a fresh look at Sartre by conducting a reading of the author’s life and work that focuses on the construction of selfhood and gender. Boulé concentrates primarily on what he refers to as the “early Sartre” (from 1905-1945) through a reading of his work published between 1936 and 1945 in order to “demonstrate a new way of connecting biography and oeuvre” (2). He conceptualizes self-formation as a process that occurs at the juncture of the psychoanalytical and social constructivism or what he calls the “psycho-social formation” (7) and he describes his study as a search for the “multiple Sartrean selves” (2). Furthermore, he maintains that masculinity includes both hegemonic and subordinate forms and that Sartre generally puts forward a sense of a “grandiose” or “inauthentic” self associated with hegemonic masculinity. Hence for Boulé, “narcissism” or a “burying” of self-expression functions in Sartre’s process of self individuation because Sartre generally neglects his “feminine self” in his early writing and social relations. Boulé begins with a careful analysis in chapter 1 of Sartre’s childhood, illustrating how the absence of his father, the inability for Sartre to differentiate himself from his mother during the critical rapprochement stage of development, and the presence of a patriarchal grandfather leave Sartre unable to express a true sense of self where masculinity and femininity could co-exist. He argues that Sartre cannot reconcile and integrate the hegemonic masculinity of his grandfather and the feminine model of his mother to express his own sense of self and hence ends up putting forth a “grandiose self” or the “infant prodigy” who performs for the benefit of others (14). Boulé also stresses that hegemonic masculinity contributes to this public performance of a rational, individuated self, and he makes reference to the symbolic episode where Sartre’s grandfather takes the seven-year old boy to the barber who cuts off the young boy’s curly locks. He astutely concludes: “the young Sartre lost his androgynous self...in order to be firmly positioned within masculinity discourses as dictated by his grandfather” (17). Nevertheless, as Boulé also contends, writing will become the exercise through which Sartre eventually finds an alternate sense of self.}, number={2}, journal={SubStance}, publisher={Project MUSE}, author={Provencher, Denis M.}, year={2008}, pages={132–137} }
 @article{provencher_2008, title={Tracing Sexual Citizenship and Queerness in <i>Drôle de Félix</i> (2000) and <i>Tarik el hob</i> (2001)}, volume={12}, ISSN={1740-9292 1740-9306}, url={http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17409290701793026}, DOI={10.1080/17409290701793026}, abstractNote={Sexual citizens of Maghrebi (North-African) descent are absent from a variety of real-life and representational spaces in twenty-first century France. Flipping through a recent issue of any gay French magazine—such as Têtu or PréfMag—will give the pointed reader a sense of this hyper-invisibility of gay Maghrebi-French citizens in mainstream consumer culture. Strolling through the Marais and other ‘‘gay-friendly’’ French neighborhoods may offer a slightly different picture as Maghrebi-French sexual citizens wander in and out of these spaces. Nevertheless, recent press articles, television broadcasts, and scholarship suggest that many of these citizens do not feel safe in or connected to these sites of same-sex leisure, desire, and consumption. For example, in my previous ethnographic work on sexuality and space, Samir, a young self-identified ‘‘French-Arab’’ drew a map of ‘‘gay Paris’’ in which he omitted completely the heart of the city (i.e. arrondissements 1 through 4 including the Marais) and spoke of his preference for more ‘‘mixed neighborhoods’’ (Provencher, Queer French 184–191). Gay Maghrebi-French citizens like Samir express varying degrees of marginalization or sexual objectification in gay-specific sites of citycenter where French sexual citizens of European descent congregate. This form of objectification is also aggravated by the commercial success of highly sexualized images of virile ‘‘Arabs,’’ Maghrebis, and ‘‘Beurs,’’ propagated by the pornography industry in France. A visit to the adult-video section of any gay-oriented French bookstore, video store, or website will assure the consumer of the hyper-sexualized visibility of these citizens in exploitative spaces on the margins where they fall under a persistent dominant (gay) male gaze (Cervulle).}, number={1}, journal={Contemporary French and Francophone Studies}, publisher={Informa UK Limited}, author={Provencher, Denis M.}, year={2008}, month={Jan}, pages={51–61} }
 @article{provencher_2007, title={French Gay Modernism}, volume={36}, ISSN={1527-2095}, url={http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/sub.2007.0021}, DOI={10.1353/sub.2007.0021}, abstractNote={where a more concrete understanding of experience is illuminated. If the truth of experience remains an abstraction, then it risks repeating the reifying gestures that Adorno and Benjamin worried about in Kant and, of course, in the social world. Andrew J. Taggart University of Wisconsin-Madison Notes 1. See Peter Hohendahl, “Introduction: Adorno Studies Today,” New German Critique 56 (Spring – Summer 1992): 3-15. 2. Robert Hullot-Kentor, “Back to Adorno,” Telos 81 (Fall 1989): 13.}, number={1}, journal={SubStance}, publisher={Project MUSE}, author={Provencher, Denis M}, year={2007}, pages={178–183} }
 @misc{provencher_2007, title={Gay TV and Straight America}, volume={27}, number={3}, journal={Historical Journal of Film, Radio, and Television}, author={Provencher, Denis M.}, year={2007}, pages={451–453} }
 @article{provencher_sobanet_2007, title={INTRODUCTION: FRANCE, 1940-1944: THE AMBIGUOUS LEGACY}, volume={31}, ISSN={0147-9156 2044-396X}, url={http://dx.doi.org/10.3828/cfc.2007.14}, DOI={10.3828/cfc.2007.14}, number={2}, journal={Contemporary French Civilization}, publisher={Liverpool University Press}, author={Provencher, Denis and Sobanet, Andrew}, year={2007}, month={Jul}, pages={1–7} }
 @article{provencher_2007, title={Maghrebi-French Sexual Citizens: In and Out on the Big Screen}, volume={XXXIII}, number={1}, journal={Cineaste: America’s Leading Magazine on the Art and Politics of the Cinema.}, author={Provencher, Denis M.}, year={2007}, month={Jan}, pages={47–51} }
 @article{provencher_2007, title={Mapping Gay Paris: Language, Space and Sexuality in the Marais}, volume={11}, ISSN={1740-9292 1740-9306}, url={http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17409290601136094}, DOI={10.1080/17409290601136094}, abstractNote={This essay draws from a larger ethnographic study conducted in France where I interviewed forty gay men and lesbians about their “coming-out” experience.1 As part of the interview, I asked particip...}, number={1}, journal={Contemporary French and Francophone Studies}, publisher={Informa UK Limited}, author={Provencher, Denis M.}, year={2007}, month={Jan}, pages={37–46} }
 @book{provencher_2007, place={Aldershot, UK and Burlington, VT}, title={Queer French: Globalization, Language, and Sexual Citizenship in France}, publisher={Routledge/Ashgate}, author={Provencher, Denis M.}, year={2007} }
 @misc{provencher_2007, title={Sexing the Citizen: Morality and Masculinity in France, 1870–1920 (review)}, volume={35}, ISSN={1536-0172}, url={http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/ncf.2007.0067}, DOI={10.1353/ncf.2007.0067}, abstractNote={Reviews love and the desire to avoid a relationship based on domination, the eponymous heroine aspires to “a something else, a something more, usually conceived as divine, that can never be attained ici-bas” (55), at least in a relationship with a man. It is only in her relationship with her twin sister Pulchérie that Lélia might find what she is looking for. Peebles reads Sand with Aristotle (on the subject of women’s slavery), then (lengthily) Wittig (“a warrior against, refugee from, sexual difference”) with Irigaray (“a champion of the advent of a different sexual difference”) before considering how Sand deals with similar problems of difference, on the one hand, and the limitations of binary differences, on the other (71). While Sand may ultimately reach the same conclusion as a Wittig or a Lacan that woman does not exist (since there is no place for “what woman might be” in society), she goes one step further, according to Peebles, choosing to “accentuate what there is of woman” (80) and to intimate that “this situation of nonexistence must change” (80–81). In her Conclusion, Peebles answers the seemingly complex question – “what is the direction of feminism?” – with a single word: psychoanalysis. As her treatment of key texts by three important women writers shows, the two discourses are inextricably linked: feminism is “inherently psychoanalytic” and psychoanalysis is “necessarily feminist” (164). The Psyche of Feminism is a success on several counts, not the least of which is Peebles’ willingness to scrutinize and question, at every turn, her own approach. Far from casting doubt over the integrity of her argument, such candor and humility (at one point she muses, for example, “It is very possible that this constitutes a weakness of the book” [166]) only lend authority to it and encourage further dialogue on the subject. Peebles’ analysis is thorough and her no-pretenses conversational style appealing. The landscape of contemporary literary criticism would be easier to navigate – and certainly more pleasurable – if more scholars followed suit.}, number={3}, journal={Nineteenth Century French Studies}, publisher={Project MUSE}, author={Provencher, Denis M.}, year={2007}, pages={670–672} }
 @misc{provencher_2007, title={The Gay Republic: Sexuality, Citizenship and Subversion in France}, volume={31}, number={1}, journal={Contemporary French Civilization}, author={Provencher, Denis M.}, year={2007}, pages={229–233} }
 @article{provencher_eilderts_2007, title={The Nation According to Lavisse}, volume={18}, ISSN={0957-1558 1740-2352}, url={http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0957155807073313}, DOI={10.1177/0957155807073313}, abstractNote={Ernest Lavisse's Histoire de France: Cours élémentaire (1884) was one of the most widely used history textbooks among French school children during the Third Republic. Le Petit Lavisse is replete with gender lessons that encourage French schoolboys to reflect on their identity and invigorate them with national pride following defeat in the Franco-Prussian war. In this essay, we examine representations of masculinityand male citizenship in Lavisse's manual to illustrate how male ‘codes of honor’ (Nye, 1993) and a male ‘sex in mourning’ (Corbin, 1992) function in this republican project of nation rebuilding. In contrast to previous scholarship, we illustrate how Lavisse situates both his male and female heroes in these nineteenth-century discourses on honour, masculinity and citizenship. In sum, we expose the inherently male-centred nature of the pedagogy of the Third Republic prescribed by Lavisse and others.}, number={1}, journal={French Cultural Studies}, publisher={SAGE Publications}, author={Provencher, Denis M. and Eilderts, Luke L.}, year={2007}, month={Feb}, pages={31–57} }
 @misc{provencher_2006, title={Albert Cohen: Dissonant Voices (review)}, volume={24}, ISSN={1534-5165}, url={http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/sho.2006.0106}, DOI={10.1353/sho.2006.0106}, abstractNote={Reviewed by: Albert Cohen: Dissonant Voices Denis M. Provencher Albert Cohen: Dissonant Voices, by Jack I. Abecassis. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004. 246 pp. $45.00. Abecassis undertakes the first book-length study in English of Albert Cohen (1895–1981), one of France's most important Jewish writers and activists of the twentieth century. Cohen's oeuvre is known by many French readers; however, it remains largely ignored in academic circles and absent from literary canons. Abecassis explains this paradox by examining the ambivalent Jewishness or "identity impasse" (p. 154) exhibited in Cohen's novels and autobiographical essays. This critic illustrates how both Cohen and his central protagonist Solal exhibit dissonant voices as they find themselves caught between two worlds: 1) traditional Judaism and separateness prescribed by the father's Law; and 2) a Gentile or European domain of secularism and assimilation. In the first several chapters, Abecassis examines Cohen's attempt to balance these dissonant voices in Solal (1930), Mangeclous (1938), and Belle du Seigneur (1968) in which the Jewish author creates stories that draw on the biblical figures of Joseph and Esther and their narratives of in-betweenness and masquerade. This critic draws parallels, for example, between Joseph, who [End Page 160] leaves Canaan to serve the Pharaoh in Egypt, and Solal, who leaves Cephalonia to work at the League of Nations in Geneva. For Abecassis, both protagonists eventually return home and must learn to reconcile "the conflicting demands of a foreign court and ancestral kin" (p. 43). Solal must also learn to mask his Jewishness while achieving success in the foreign land, and his saga draws from the concealment tactics recounted in Esther's masquerade episode during Purim. Nonetheless, Abecassis maintains, Cohen's protagonist does not successfully balance the two worlds like his biblical brethren, for his life eventually unravels on many levels. In the remainder of the book, Abecassis continues to draw out Cohen's ambivalent Judaism as it emerges in relation to various female and parental figures. For example, he examines the "relationship" of Albert and Louise (his mother) in Le Livre de ma mère (1954) and illustrates how Cohen's career and public life eventually alienate him from her despite attempts to try otherwise. Abecassis draws a parallel here to Solal's alienation from the Valorous (his family) mentioned above and illustrates how this same dynamic plays out in Solal's relationship with the Jewess dwarf Rachel and the antisemitic Ariane in Belle du Seigneur. In essence, Abecassis illustrates how Cohen "repeats the same dialectic of repulsion, then reconciliation followed by a withdrawal" (p. 153) from a Jewish tradition in all of his narratives. For Abecassis, this metaphorically illustrates Cohen's inability to "save his children" (i.e., European Jews) from eventual destruction (read here as the Holocaust). This becomes most evident in Abecassis' enthralling epilogue where he exposes Solal's failure (suicide) in the painful father-son narrative Ezéchiel (1932), a story replete with antisemitic imagery and Jewish self-hatred. In sum, Abecassis attributes the "Cohen paradox" to his stance as an openly Jewish writer who made the "catastrophe of being a Jew" the central issue in his writing. Likewise, he largely attributes Cohen's lukewarm reception by critics to an inability to present himself as an Israélite or a "well-adjusted citizen" (p. 208). Early in the book, Abecassis maintains that Cohen creates "bridge narratives" (p. 34) as a means to negotiate his ambivalent identity between the two worlds (p. 34). While this scholar deals systematically with the secondary literature on Cohen and occasionally draws on psychoanalytic theory to examine Cohen's Jewishness, he never explicitly engages several other bodies of scholarship related to identity and cultural marginality. For example, although Abecassis deals primarily with Jewish identity, assimilation, and ambivalent stereotyping, his analysis could have benefited from a consideration of scholarship in French and Francophone studies that deals with other types of borderland literature and forms of biculturalism. The work on immigrant (Maghrebi) literatures and cultures in contemporary France (Hargreaves, [End Page 161] 1997; Hargreaves and McKinney, 1997; and Rosello, 1998) first comes to mind. Furthermore, while Abecassis describes the performative nature of Jewish identity, especially in the...}, number={4}, journal={Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies}, publisher={Project MUSE}, author={Provencher, Denis M.}, year={2006}, pages={160–162} }
 @misc{provencher_2006, title={Bringing the Empire Back Home: France in the Global Age}, volume={30}, number={1}, journal={Contemporary French Civilization}, author={Provencher, Denis M.}, year={2006}, pages={181–184} }
 @misc{provencher_2006, title={Paul Virilio: Theorist for an Accelerated Culture}, volume={79}, number={4}, journal={The French Review}, author={Provencher, Denis M.}, year={2006}, pages={63–64} }
 @inbook{provencher_2005, title={Sealed with a Kiss: Heteronormative Narrative Strategies in NBC’s Will & Grace}, booktitle={The Sitcom Reader: America Viewed and Skewed}, publisher={State University of New York Press}, author={Provencher, Denis M.}, editor={Dalton, Mary M. and Linder, Laura R.Editors}, year={2005}, pages={177–189} }
 @book{provencher_2005, place={New York, New York}, title={Sealed with a Kiss: Heteronormative Narrative Strategies in and Audience Responses to NBC’s Will and Grace}, institution={The Center for the Study of Media and Society, GLAAD (Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation}, author={Provencher, Denis M.}, year={2005} }
 @misc{provencher_2004, title={Disenchanting Les Bons Temps: Identity and Authenticity in Cajun Music and Dance}, volume={77}, number={5}, journal={The French Review}, author={Provencher, Denis M.}, year={2004}, pages={1048–1049} }
 @article{provencher_schehr_2004, title={Figures of Alterity: French Realism and Its Others}, volume={33}, ISSN={0049-2426}, url={http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3685554}, DOI={10.2307/3685554}, abstractNote={Reviewed by: Figures of Alterity: French Realism and Its Others Denis M. Provencher Schehr, Lawrence R. Figures of Alterity: French Realism and Its Others. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2003. Pp. xii + 251. In his latest book, Lawrence Schehr returns to the canon of French realism to examine discourses of alterity—what he defines as "the other" or "the previously unrepresented"—in the works of Balzac, Flaubert, Zola, Mirbeau, Proust and Gide (13). Following Lyotard, Schehr defines the "figure" as "the mark of the other that has not settled into a fixed textual structure," and examines various figures of alterity (women, Jews, homosexuals, among others) in selected works by these nineteenth- and twentieth-century French writers (30). In this study, Schehr illustrates how the realist project aims to incorporate figures of alterity into the dominant narrative fold, thereby normalizing them through a pre-existing representational system and literary convention. However, he [End Page 183] convincingly demonstrates throughout the book how these figures enter into the narrative space in ways that constantly destabilize the "male-centered...white, Christian, Western and straight" world of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries (ix-x). In his introductory chapter, Schehr establishes a formal definition of realism, by offering a sound review of various critical perspectives on the subject, including those of Marx, Freud, Jakobson, Deleuze and Guattari, Barthes, Derrida, Baktin, and Foucault, among others. As Schehr considers language to be at the heart of realist praxis, he calls upon such scholars to establish a notion of realist narrative that emerges largely due to the creation of verisimilitude through mimetic language (7). He also considers the role of such literary techniques as ekphrasis, discours indirect libre, and the reemergence of the first-person narrator in the early twentieth century (largely in Proust and Gide), all of which bring some order to the realist narrative. In his first chapter, Schehr examines several novels and short stories in La Comédie humaine to illustrate how Balzac's use of poetic language and metaphor follow the universal laws of verisimilitude and realism (51). Nonetheless, this critic illustrates Balzac's ability to introduce the unrepresented into a narrative largely associated with "bourgeois society and its economies of meaning and value" (52). Schehr demonstrates how Balzac works within the discursive strategies and underlying historical, economic and psychological universals of the period—including notions of justice, propriety and exchange—while at the same time "blowing them up from within" to create a heterogeneous narrative in which figures of alterity emerge in meaningful ways (38-39). For example, Schehr illustrates how Balzac undoes gender and social roles in Eugénie Grandet by constructing Eugénie as an ambiguous female character who adopts a role equivalent to a "son" by running her father's business (41). While Balzac constructs Eugénie in relation to nineteenth-century laws of economic exchange, justice and propriety, this character sheds the passive (female) role of wife, mother and "reactor" to take on the active (male) role of business owner. Balzac depicts Eugénie's cousin Charles as a somewhat stereotypical effeminate and sensitive Parisian fop. However, this male character still builds a slave trade and embodies everything that uncle Grandet hopes to become in terms of business success. In short, Schehr illustrates how Balzac creates hybridized characters that embody difference by avoiding fixed identities and restrictive binaries. Although Balzac never inserts a code of difference in the language to directly reference these figures, he still creates a hetero-geneous narrative space that allows them to emerge through various discursive eruptions (95). Schehr also suggests that Balzac's narrative [End Page 184] strategies associated with difference serve as a representational precursor for later examples of the realist tradition. In his second chapter, Schehr examines the works of Flaubert, comparing and contrasting Salammbô with its predecessor, Madame Bovary. In contrast to chapter one, where Schehr emphasizes the heterogeneity of Balzac's realist project, whereby the dominant narrative mostly assimilates figures of the other, in this chapter he illustrates Flaubert's ability to "maintain the otherness of the other within the aesthetic of realism" (97-98). Furthermore, in contrast to his highly acclaimed Madame Bovary, which depicts an underlying nineteenth-century...}, number={3}, journal={SubStance}, publisher={Project MUSE}, author={Provencher, Denis M. and Schehr, Lawrence R.}, year={2004}, pages={183} }
 @misc{provencher_2003, title={AIDS in French Culture: Social Ills, Literary Cures}, volume={76}, number={4}, journal={The French Review}, author={Provencher, Denis M.}, year={2003}, pages={843–844} }
 @inbook{provencher_2003, place={Oxford}, title={Press}, booktitle={French Popular Culture: An Introduction}, publisher={Oxford University Press/Arnold Publishing}, author={Provencher, Denis M.}, editor={Dauncey, HughEditor}, year={2003}, pages={34–47} }
 @article{provencher_2003, title={QUEER STUDIES IN FRANCE}, volume={27}, ISSN={0147-9156 2044-396X}, url={http://dx.doi.org/10.3828/cfc.2003.27.2.011}, DOI={10.3828/cfc.2003.27.2.011}, number={2}, journal={Contemporary French Civilization}, publisher={Liverpool University Press}, author={Provencher, Denis M.}, year={2003}, month={Oct}, pages={406–416} }
 @article{provencher_2002, title={THE NEXT GENE(T)RATION: AUTHENTICITY AND (HOMO) SEXUAL CITIZENSHIP IN CONTEMPORARY FRENCH GAY CULTURE}, volume={26}, ISSN={0147-9156 2044-396X}, url={http://dx.doi.org/10.3828/cfc.2002.26.2.018}, DOI={10.3828/cfc.2002.26.2.018}, abstractNote={Dans cet article, l'A se penche sur l'identite nationale de la culture gay en France. L'A distingue les emprunts a la culture gay ango-saxonne pour analyser les caracteristiques specifiquement francaises de l'identite homosexuelle masculine notamment grâce a l'oeuvre de Jean Genet}, number={2}, journal={Contemporary French Civilization}, publisher={Liverpool University Press}, author={Provencher, Denis M.}, year={2002}, month={Oct}, pages={335–346} }
 @article{provencher_2002, title={VAGUE ENGLISH CREOLE: (GAY ENGLISH) COOPERATIVE DISCOURSE IN THE FRENCH GAY PRESS}, volume={26}, ISSN={0147-9156 2044-396X}, url={http://dx.doi.org/10.3828/cfc.2002.26.1.007}, DOI={10.3828/cfc.2002.26.1.007}, abstractNote={Cet article se penche sur la construction de l'identite homosexuelle en France. L'A. revient sur l'importance du modele anglo-saxon vehicule par le Net et la presence toujours grandissante d'items anglophones dans la presse et la publicite gay ( Tetu). Pour autant l'identite gay a la francaise ne peut se resumer a des discours anglophiles etant donne la richesse ethnoculturelle qui compose la population vivant en France}, number={1}, journal={Contemporary French Civilization}, publisher={Liverpool University Press}, author={Provencher, Denis M.}, year={2002}, month={Apr}, pages={86–110} }
 @misc{provencher_2001, title={A toute vitesse}, volume={74}, number={6}, journal={The French Review}, author={Provencher, Denis M.}, year={2001}, pages={1256–1257} }
 @misc{provencher_2001, title={L’Aventure américaine de l’oeuvre de François Truffaut}, volume={75}, number={2}, journal={The French Review}, author={Provencher, Denis M.}, year={2001}, pages={409–410} }
 @article{bullock_provencher_2001, title={The linguistic representation of femininity and masculinity in Jean Genet's Notre-Dame des Fleurs}, volume={12}, ISSN={0957-1558 1740-2352}, url={http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/095715580101203403}, DOI={10.1177/095715580101203403}, abstractNote={Address for correspondence: Dr Denis M. Provencher, Department of Foreign Languages, 315 Graff Main Hall, University of Wisconsin, La Crosse, La Crosse, WI 54601. E-mail: provench.deni@uwlax.edu. Jean Genet is both praised and reviled for his raw depiction of the arbitrary nature of how masculine and feminine roles are reproduced in a homosexual society. Kate Millet chose to close her groundbreaking book of feminist literary criticism, Sexual Politics (1975), with a chapter dedicated to the writings of Jean Genet who she claimed was the ’only living writer of firstclass literary gift to have transcended the sexual myths of our era’.1 For Millet, Genet’s works magnificently illustrated that the terms ’masculine’ and ’feminine’ do not refer to biologically determined categories but social roles:}, number={34}, journal={French Cultural Studies}, publisher={SAGE Publications}, author={Bullock, Barbara E. and Provencher, Denis M.}, year={2001}, month={Feb}, pages={043–58} }
 @book{provencher_geno_2000, place={Lanham, MD}, title={Manuel d’exercices pour accompagner A la française}, publisher={University Press of America}, author={Provencher, Denis M. and Geno, Marie G.}, year={2000} }