C I S C I S ultural dentIty tudIeS Rethinking ‘Identities’ C a i r n s Cultural Articulations of Alterity and a n d Resistance in the New Millennium This volume sets out to re-imagine the theoretical and epistemological pre- F o suppositions of existing scholarship on identities. Despite a well-established u z Lucille Cairns and Santiago Fouz-Hernández (eds) body of scholarly texts that examine the concept from a wide range of - H perspectives, there is a surprising dearth of work on multiple, heterog eneous e r n forms of identity. Numerous studies of ethnic, linguistic, regional and religious á n d identities have appeared, but largely in isolation from one another. e z ( e Rethinking ‘Identities’ is a multi-authored project that is original in providing d s ) – in distributed and granular mode – a hyper-contemporary and wide-ranging AR applied analysis that questions notions of identity based on nation and region, le teth language, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, religion or even ‘the human’. The volume ritin yk achieves this by mobilizing various contexts of identity (gender, ethnicity, ain ng sexuality, nation) and medium (art, cinema, literature, music, theatre, video). d Emphasizing the extreme contemporary (the twenty-first century) and the R‘Id ee sn challenges posed by an increasingly global society, this collection of essays ist builds upon existing intellectual investigations of identity with the aim of tanitie cs offering a fresh perspective that transcends cognitive and geographical frontiers. e i’: C nu thltu Lucille Cairns is Professor of French at Durham University. She is the author e Nra l of numerous articles both on French women’s writing and on male and female e A wr homosexuality in French literature and film, and of five monographs, most Mtic recently Post-War Jewish Women’s Writing in French (2011). She was also iu editor of Gay and Lesbian Cultures in France (2002). In 2009, she was made llenlati no a Chevalier dans l‘Ordre des Palmes Académiques by the French government. in us m o f Santiago Fouz-Hernández is Senior Lecturer in Hispanic Studies at Durham University. He is the author of the monograph Cuerpos de cine. Masculinidades CIS carnales en el cine y la cultura popular contemporáneos (2013), co-author of Live Flesh: The Male Body in Contemporary Spanish Cinema (2007) and 20 editor of Mysterious Skin: Male Bodies in Contemporary Cinema (2009). He is also the reviews editor of the journal Studies in Spanish and Latin American P e Cinemas. His current research focuses on Spanish erotic cinema. te r L a n g ISBN 978-3-0343-0865-6 P l www.peterlang.com eter ang C I S C I S ultural dentIty tudIeS Rethinking ‘Identities’ C a i r n s Cultural Articulations of Alterity and a n d Resistance in the New Millennium This volume sets out to re-imagine the theoretical and epistemological pre- F o suppositions of existing scholarship on identities. Despite a well-established u z Lucille Cairns and Santiago Fouz-Hernández (eds) body of scholarly texts that examine the concept from a wide range of - H perspectives, there is a surprising dearth of work on multiple, heterog eneous e r n forms of identity. Numerous studies of ethnic, linguistic, regional and religious á n d identities have appeared, but largely in isolation from one another. e z ( e Rethinking ‘Identities’ is a multi-authored project that is original in providing d s ) – in distributed and granular mode – a hyper-contemporary and wide-ranging AR applied analysis that questions notions of identity based on nation and region, le teth language, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, religion or even ‘the human’. The volume ritin yk achieves this by mobilizing various contexts of identity (gender, ethnicity, ain ng sexuality, nation) and medium (art, cinema, literature, music, theatre, video). d Emphasizing the extreme contemporary (the twenty-first century) and the R‘Id ee sn challenges posed by an increasingly global society, this collection of essays ist builds upon existing intellectual investigations of identity with the aim of tanitie cs offering a fresh perspective that transcends cognitive and geographical frontiers. e i’: C nu thltu Lucille Cairns is Professor of French at Durham University. She is the author e Nra l of numerous articles both on French women’s writing and on male and female e A wr homosexuality in French literature and film, and of five monographs, most Mtic recently Post-War Jewish Women’s Writing in French (2011). She was also iu editor of Gay and Lesbian Cultures in France (2002). In 2009, she was made llenlati no a Chevalier dans l‘Ordre des Palmes Académiques by the French government. in us m o f Santiago Fouz-Hernández is Senior Lecturer in Hispanic Studies at Durham University. He is the author of the monograph Cuerpos de cine. Masculinidades CIS carnales en el cine y la cultura popular contemporáneos (2013), co-author of Live Flesh: The Male Body in Contemporary Spanish Cinema (2007) and 20 editor of Mysterious Skin: Male Bodies in Contemporary Cinema (2009). He is also the reviews editor of the journal Studies in Spanish and Latin American P e Cinemas. His current research focuses on Spanish erotic cinema. te r L a n g ISBN 978-3-0343-0865-6 P l www.peterlang.co m eter ang Rethinking ‘Identities’ Cultural Identity Studies Volume 20 Edited by Helen Chambers PETER LANG Oxford • Bern • Berlin • Bruxelles • Frankfurt am Main • New York • Wien Lucille Cairns and Santiago Fouz-Hernández (eds) Rethinking ‘Identities’ Cultural Articulations of Alterity and Resistance in the New Millennium PETER LANG Oxford • Bern • Berlin • Bruxelles • Frankfurt am Main • New York • Wien Bibliographic information published by Die Deutsche Nationalbibliothek. Die Deutsche Nationalbibliothek lists this publication in the Deutsche National- bibliografie; detailed bibliographic data is available on the Internet at http://dnb.d-nb.de. A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. Library of Congress Control Number: 2014934470 Cover image © Christian Mieves. ISSN 1661-3252 ISBN 978-3-0343-0865-6 (print) ISBN 978-3-0353-0607-1 (eBook) © Peter Lang AG, International Academic Publishers, Bern 2014 Hochfeldstrasse 32, CH-3012 Bern, Switzerland [email protected], www.peterlang.com, www.peterlang.net All rights reserved. All parts of this publication are protected by copyright. Any utilisation outside the strict limits of the copyright law, without the permission of the publisher, is forbidden and liable to prosecution. This applies in particular to reproductions, translations, microfilming, and storage and processing in electronic retrieval systems. This publication has been peer reviewed. Printed in Germany For Christian and for Debbie Contents Acknowledgements ix Introduction 1 Part I Gendered and Sexual Identities 19 Lucille Cairns Post-Feminist Pornographication or Pro-Sex Feminism? Queer Performativity in the Work of Two French Female Artists 21 Doris Leibetseder Fem(me) Tracks: Queer Fem(me)inist Strategies of Resistance in Rock and Pop Music, from Angie Reed to Denice Fredriksson 43 Santiago Fouz-Hernández and Adrián Gras-Velázquez Screening Chueca: Marking the Queer Territory in Spanish Cinema of the 2000s 67 Florian Grandena From the Sublimated Anus to the Desublimating Hand: An Intersectional Discussion of Work and Homosexuality in French Gay Cinema 89 viii Part II National and Ethnic Identities 113 Andy Byford Performing ‘Community’: Russian Speakers in Contemporary Britain 115 Alfredo Martínez-Expósito Branding the Nation: Resistance and Authenticity in García Berlanga’s París-Tombuctú 141 Diego Santos Sánchez Performing Nationhood: Theatre and Heterodox Identities in (Multi)National Spain 163 Part III Post-Human Identities 187 Kerstin Oloff Towards the World-Zombie: The Monstrous, the ‘Human’ and the Dominican-Haitian Frontier in Pedro Cabiya’s Malas hierbas (2010) and Junot Díaz’s ‘Monstro’ (2012) 189 Christopher Lloyd Redrawing the Boundaries of the Human: Automata, Androids and Clones from Hoffmann to Houellebecq 213 Notes on Contributors 237 Index 241