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In applying the notion of heterotopia to domesticity this paper aims to historicize, from the 19th century to today, the vanishing points imagined by those who maintain theinteriors where they are assigned to those “good to do everything,” such as nannies and housewives. The inner frame then opens like an Alberti’s window to narrative perspectives …

Since Menstruationsfilm (1966-67), the pivotal work of Valie Export, many contemporary artistic creations highlight the menstrual value of “gendered blood,” to use the term of Mary Jane Lupton in Menstruation and Psychoanalysis (1993: 3). In the form of painting, performance, installation and video, these creations apply “menstrual blood” in a feminist context, as was the …

Almost three decades span the release of Paris is Burning (1990), Jennie Livingston’s arthouse documentary on the late-1980s New York ballroom scene, and its fictionalrevisiting in the TV series Pose (2018-21), created by Ryan Murphy and now a global phenomenon thanks to its presence on streaming services. Paris is Burning and Pose have both gone …

This paper questions the concept of the possible heterotopia of cinema by making a creative reading of a corpus of contemporary experimental science-fiction films. Wethink heterotopia in direct relation to utopia. If utopia can be linked to a form of thought, then heterotopia would be a form of realised or achievable utopia. Heterotopian action would …

This article explores the specific role of heterotopia in a literary context as a place located in-between reality and fiction, specifically in the light of the autofictional play at work in Charyn’s writing. As both a spatial landmark and imaginary background of a reinvented world, the Bronx intersects both fact and creation. This subjective cartography …

In the work of Georges Perec, the novel W or the Memory of Childhood (1975) is an attempt, halfway between autobiography and detective novel, to reveal the greatest enigma of the existence of the writer, namely the tragic fate of his mother who was deported to Auschwitz from where she would never return. In order …

This article analyzes the four books of Samuel R. Delany’s Neveryon cycle: Tales of Neveryon (1979), Neveryona, or: The Tale of Signs and Cities (1983), Flight from Neveryon (1985) and Return to Neveryon (1987). Michel Foucault’s concepts of heterotopia, genealogy, biopolitics and reverse discourse are used to show how a sign of slavery in the …