Holmes, D orcid.org/0000-0001-9079-3582 (2019) Bad Sex/Good Sex: Nancy Huston and the Boundaries of Erotic Writing. L'Esprit Créateur, 59 (3). pp. 60-72. ISSN 0014-0767
Abstract
In 2012 Nancy Huston’s novel Infrared, the self-translated English-language version of her 2010 novel Infrarouge, won the annual Bad Sex Award, established in 1993 by the UK-based Literary Review to “reward” the author of “an outstandingly bad scene of sexual description in an otherwise good novel.” Yet both critical and popular acclaim for Huston’s work includes acknowledgment of its compelling representation of relations between the sexes, and indeed of sex tout court. This article asks what kind of boundaries Huston overstepped to so displease the judges of the Literary Review. It explores what constitutes ‘bad’ and ‘good’ sex in twenty-first-century women’s writing, through the prism of Huston’s bilingual fiction and particularly Infrarouge.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © L’Esprit Créateur, Vol. 59, No. 3 (2019), pp. 60–72. This is an author produced version of a journal article published in L’Esprit Créateur. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy. |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Cultures (Leeds) > School of Languages Cultures & Societies (Leeds) > French (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 23 Nov 2018 11:44 |
Last Modified: | 04 May 2022 08:38 |
Published Version: | https://muse.jhu.edu/issue/40968 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Johns Hopkins University Press |
Identification Number: | 10.1353/esp.2019.0032 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:139050 |