TROUBLER LE PROTOCOLE DE DÉPUCELAGE : DÉSIR, SUBJECTIVITÉ SEXUELLE ET AUTISME DANS MON PÈRE M’A DONNÉ UN MARI DE EMMANUELLE BAYAMACK-TAM
TROUBLING THE PROTOCOL OF VIRGINITY LOSS: QUEER SEXUAL SUBJECTIVITY IN MON PÈRE M’A DONNÉ UN MARI BY EMMANUELLE BAYAMACK-TAM

Summary/Abstract: This paper investigates the under-examined play, Mon père m’a donné un mari, written by French au-thor Emmanuelle Bayamack-Tam. The play centres around sixteen-year-old Alexandrine who is identi-fied as Asperger and who masturbates in front of her parents. We argue that by focusing on an epistemicframework intersecting literary studies with Mad/SickGirl Studies, we can explain how Alexandrine’sparents confine her in what we call a “heteronormative corset”, a parentally-informed virginity lossprotocol which is entwined with ableist and adult-centric stereotypes. We then address the unravel-ling of this protocol by insisting that at the core of Alexandrine’s “sick/mad language” there is a queersexual subjectivity that troubles this protocol of virginity loss as the single-most defining experiencemarking the end of girlhood.

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