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- ItemVers un imaginaire queer? Une analyse comparative de la (de)construction de l’identite sexuelle binaire et heteronormative dans Ete 85 de Francois Ozon et « Arrete avec tes mensonges » de Philippe Besson(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2022-12) Thwaits, Dylan; Leveel, Eric; Stellenbosch University. Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences. Dept. of Modern Foreign Languages.ENGLISH ABSTRACT: François Ozon and Philippe Besson each offer us a story of queer romance that, despite their vastly different mediums, remain thematically and narratively similar. Both Été 85 and « Arrête avec tes mensonges » are set in the mid-1980s, depict a forbidden love story between two boys that is ultimately marked by death, as well as themes of heteronormativity. Whilst the two stories resemble one another, the approaches that Ozon and Besson ultimately undertake differ notably. Through the unlikely comparison of these two creatives – the first of its kind – this interdisciplinary study unveils certain ideological underpinnings and novel understandings of both Ozon and Besson’s work. Drawing on the research of various theorists in the field of queer and gender studies (such as Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, Judith Butler and Lee Edelman), this study highlights the manner in which both Ozon and Besson subvert the expectations of a heteronormative and binary societal matrix. However, in doing so, this study also draws attention to the ideological divergence regarding their respective conceptions of sexuality: where Besson conceives sexuality as being more fixed and collectivist in « Arrête avec tes mensonges », Ozon, in contrast, prefers to highlight the inherent fluidity of sexual identity.