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40Erotic “Remedy” Prints and the Fall of the Aristocracy in Eighteenth-Century FrancePolitical Theory 25 (5): 680-715. 1997.The asshole remains the one shameful part of the bourgeois body.... The anus is the private part par excellence of the bourgeois body.... It has no place in socially admissible desire.... The use of the asshole is the touchstone of the conflict between the private and the public. Guy Hocquenghem
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62Candide Shoots the Monkey Lovers: Representing Black Men in Eighteenth-Century French Visual CulturePolitical Theory 34 (6): 741-784. 2006.This essay analyzes a shift in racialized regimes of visual signification in French metropolitan culture during the long eighteenth century. The author explores two symbolically central figures—the dismembered black slave and the black rapist/lover who is “duly punished”—by undertaking an intertextual reading of two sets of illustrations of Voltaire's Candide (1759) designed by Moreau le Jeune. Separated by the French and Haitian Revolutions, Moreau's two sets of Candide illustrations (1787 and …Read more
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Rousseau Under Surveillance: Thoughts on a New Edition and Translation of Rousseau, Judge of Jean-Jacques: DialoguesInterpretation 21 (2): 169-179. 1994.
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