Ceci est mon corps
(Éditions Triptyque, 2019)
ART 376
Ceci est mon corps relate l’éducation sentimentale d’un jeune garçon homosexuel issu d’un milieu socioéconomique défavorisé de l’Est ontarien. Le texte traverse les frontières de genre (littéraire et sexuel), d’orientation sexuelle, de langue, de race et de classe en proposant d’analyser la décomposition d’une famille et la recomposition d’une autre, la chosen family queer qui permettra au personnage de s’épanouir de manière saine et authentique. Maniant les théories queer et le genderfuck, abordant la honte, la dépression, la maladie, la solitude et le sexe compulsif, Michael V. Smith crée, avec Ceci est mon corps, une oeuvre complexe, écrite dans une langue accessible permettant à un vaste lectorat d’entrer en relation avec son histoire, racontée sans fard, afin d’y trouver quelque chose comme une forme queer d’humanité, construite à partir de la vulnérabilité la plus totale. « Je me suis souvent promis, au fil des ans, de tempérer mon ardeur pour le sexe en public, le sexe anonyme, les petites vites, le sexe ailleurs que dans un lit, mais à mesure que passaient les semaines solitaires, ma détermination finissait par chanceler. J’avais l’impression que tout le monde sauf moi avait percé le code secret gay puisque j’étais incapable de convaincre qui que ce soit de me fréquenter. Le sexe en public me permettait de trouver un réconfort physique et d’oublier les soirées en solitaire.
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Author
Michael V. Smith is an associate professor at the University of British Columbia, where he teaches creative writing. His first novel, Cumberland, was shortlisted for the Amazon.ca / Books in Canada First Novel Award. His short fiction has won the Western Magazine Gold Award for Fiction and been nominated for the Journey Prize. In 2007, Smith received the Dayne Ogilvie Award for Emerging Gay Writers and Vancouver’s Community Hero of the Year Award. A native of Cornwall, Ontario, Smith currently lives in Kelowna, BC.
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Paper ISBN: 9782898010231
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