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DIDIER ERIBON, WRER: ‘WHAT WAS DIFFICULT WAS NOT BEG GAY BUT BEG WORKG-CLASS’

La sortie ce livre t un événement étrange : la réédn d'un texte déjà classique dans un domae qui semble enre émergent. Philosophe et soclogue, Didier Éribon a notamment participé à l'troductn s étus gays et lbienn et s théori queer en France. L Réflexns sur la qutn gay, publié pour la première fois en 1999, nstuent jourd'hui l'un s text fondatrs s étus anphon sur « l homosexualés ». Il a asi participé développement s re... * didier eribon gay *

When Didier Eribon ped the homophobia and sual racism of an impoverished life on a hog tate northern France and arrived Paris 1964, he me out of one closet and went to another. It was much easier to tell his clever, smopolan new iends that he was gay than to adm to beg workg-class.

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“My g out of the sexual closet, my sire to assume and assert my homosexualy, cid … wh my shuttg myself up si what I might ll a class closet, ” he wr his crilly acclaimed btseller Returng to Reims, published the UK next ’s name is ltle known Bra outsi tellectual circl, particular Kg’s College Cambridge, where he has been a visg fellow.

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Until recently, he was bt known France for his bgraphy of the philosopher and social theorist Michel Fouult, and for his wrg on gay male inty.

INSULT AND THE MAKG OF THE GAY SELF

The central them echo those The End of Eddy, Édouard Louis’s 2014 tobgraphil novel about growg up gay and poor a solate post-dtrial town northern France, which is dited to Eribon.

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”His book reunts how, after s Paris, the by now succsful, renowned and openly gay Eribon feels ught between class, still ashamed of his roots but still silently seethg when one of his tellectual and social peers is nscendg or sultg about the workg class. “What was difficult was not beg gay but beg workg-class, ” he says. Reims, he wr, is a “town of sults”, those spected of beg gay are “faggots” and “nancy boys”.

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It seems that he n help to expla the cle of the left and provi sights to the impoverished, homophobic i, which he grew up . Eribon grew up a homophobic environment and scrib tail what means to be a gay adolcent proletarian, ral France. After sharp criqu – such as those by Luc Boltanski (2011), Jacqu Rancière (2012), and Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak (1988) – the bate about the victims of social power stctur has changed.

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Like Eribon, he is gay, grew up the untrysi, and a homophobic, vlent environment. Only when his father, whom he scrib as aggrsive, vlent, and openly homophobic, di, do he return to viss his mother.

Here, Eribon giv sights to the hardships of a young man disverg that he is attracted to men; an environment which “real masculy” is monstrated by open ntempt for gay men.

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