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Volume 110 - March 1995

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The Association in 1995

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The Association in 1995

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Editorial

  • Editor's Column: Parker Prize Winners Reflect on PMLA

  • Domna C. Stanton
  • Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    23 October 2020, pp. 983-991
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Special Topic: Colonialism and the Postcolonial Condition

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Editorial

  • Editor's Column: The Publishability of PMLA Submissions: Policy and Practice

  • Domna C. Stanton
  • Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    23 October 2020, pp. 191-195
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Research Article

  • Proust in the Tearoom

  • Jarrod Hayes
  • Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    23 October 2020, pp. 992-1005

  • In French, the words tasse ‘teacup’ and théière ‘teapot’ also denote a public rest room where men have sex—a “tearoom” in English—and prendre le thé ‘to have tea’ means “to have homosexual sex.” Most of the narrative of Marcel Proust's A la recherche du temps perdu is said to result from having tea with a madeleine. This essay examines the possibility that the passage in which Charlus engages in tearoom sex may imply that there are other such tea parties in the novel. More broadly, I consider the importance of coded or secret languages in the production of sexual knowledge. Revealing the tearoom's secret opens up a Trojan horse (to use Monique Wittig's term) of interpretive uncertainties in the novel, as well as a contagion of doubt concerning heterosexual masculinity and male subjectivity.

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