La matrice bisexuelle dans les Bildungsromane français contemporains

Abstract

I analyze the way in which the Bildungsroman seizes on bisexuality in two contemporary French novels: Saccage (2006) by Éric Jourdan and A Boy Like Another (2012) by Joël Breurec. A novelistic genre representing the entry into adulthood of a young protagonist and his identity construction, the Bildungsroman proves here to be an adequate analytical tool for understanding the construction of bisexual identity through literary strategies aimed at represent it.

Keywords

• Bisexuality
• Bildungsroman
• LGBTQAI Studies
• Sexual desire
• Pleasure
• Gaze