Open AccessTransidentité et transfiction à l’heure de la postmodernité
Author(s) -
Martine Renouprez
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
caietele echinox
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 1582-960X
DOI - 10.24193/cechinox.2020.38.17
Subject(s) - legitimacy , politics , sociology , ethnology , diversity (politics) , gender identity , epistemology , anthropology , humanities , gender studies , philosophy , psychology , political science , law
The Western view of the world is fundamentally a binary one, in which institutions (political, scientific and religious) have tried to pass off as natural those distinctions which are cultural in origin, particularly those concerning men and women. The male/female organic distinction has been used as supposed evidence for the creation of gender constructs. However, biology today shows that an infinite diversity of sexual orientations and identities exists within both animal and human worlds. What is the effect of “otherness” within oneself when “I am the other”? The post-modern novel Chéri-Chéri by Philippe Djian questions the legitimacy of human binary and the distinction between sexes and genders.