Les métamorphoses du genre dans le rire des déesses d’Ananda Devi et le courage qu’il faut aux rivières d’Emmanuelle Favier

Abstract

This study focuses on the metamorphosis of gender in Le rire des déesses by Ananda Devi and Le courage qu’il faut aux rivières by Emmanuelle Favier. This dissertation attempts to explore the way in which authors (re)testify to a constant literary recreation, particularly through transsexual characters who allow them to rethink gender in its relationship to the world and, in a more pronounced way, to reinvent borders contemporary identities. For this, we have summoned the semiology of the character and incidentally postmodernism. These two approaches make it possible to road characters who, in the face of standardized societies, build a hybrid body. We have also summoned postmodernism as theory to explain the subversion of the laws of binarity, the fight of certain feminist movements. By questioning the relationship between the metamorphosis of gender and literature, we seek to understand how literary texts account for these Trans figures. In the first part, we represented the different categories of the gender. This articulation of work develops a reflection on the causes of gender disorders in the texts and the various transitional paths of the characters. In the second part, we approach the impact of the metamorphosis of gender on romantic writing and transcriptions of the phenomenon metamorphoses in the corpus. To this end, we notice a particular form of writing about the metamorphosis of gender. Thus, this theme is characterized by the aesthetics of discontinuity. This results in the narrative fragmentary, the bursting of forms, the typographic disorder, the cleaved characters, a decentralized space and a chaotic temporality. But also, the use of intertextuality and intermediality (as principles of postmodetrnism) are a major issue to say the metamorphosis of gender. The third part re-examines the ideologies involved in the texts to rethink the discourse on gender and shows how literary fiction can be the place that questions gender otherwise.