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• W173512852 abstract "Julien Green is perhaps one of the most successful, but least known American writers. He wrote mostly in French, even though he was born an American, and considered himself to be an American throughout his life. Celebrated in France for his novels, journals, plays, and other writings, in 1973 he was elected to the Academie Francaise, France's most prestigious literary institution. Although one would think that such acclaim and the availability of decent English-language translations of most of his works would have cultivated an American readership, Green remains virtually unknown to the lay reader and literary critic alike. Green's identity as an American is not the only important aspect of his drama to have been ignored; his role as a writer who helped articulate gay identity is also largely unacknowledged. Green's play, Sud is one of the most important early attempts to deal with same-sex sexuality on stage, either in France or in the United States. Written in 1953, at the height of McCarthyism and concern over un-American activities, the play was never actually performed in the United States, despite being set in its eponymous location, the American South (Rose 184). It has, however, continued to interest American literary critics, particularly within the last ten years, as it has been the subject of articles in a number of literary journals and even in such popular periodicals as the New York Review of Books (Weightman 53-56). When celebrated director, Louis Jouvet first staged Green's play in Paris in 1953, audiences were baffled by what they saw. Ils ne comprennent rien, et ils adorent ca, quipped one of the actresses in the original production (Green, OC 1728). (1) Green's subject matter was so unfamiliar and communicated with such subtlety that most spectators didn't realize that it was about homosexuality. While it is true that Green's play is understated, the confusion likely stems from the fact that it is the non-dit, i.e., what isn't said, that communicates the play's true meaning. In Sud Green communicated a clear message about sexuality through the use of sous-entendus and didascalia in a way quite new to the stage. Although his meaning may have been lost on part of the public, Green's use of the theatrical text allowed him to depict same-sex love in an overt, but non-threatening, manner virtually unknown at the time. In order to fully appreciate the text's significance it is important to place it in the context of other writing about same-sex sexuality. Although there were many gay and lesbian people involved in the production of drama, homosexuality remained a taboo subject. The effect was not only a lack of representation on the stage or on the page, but also the lack of an appropriate discourse for even writing of such subjects. As Marguerite Yourcenar, a contemporary of Green's also wrote: L'ecrivain qui cherche a traiter avec honnetete de l'aventure [d'un personnage homosexuel], eliminant de son langage les formules supposees bienseantes, mais en realite a demi effarouchees ou a demi grivoises qui sont celle de la litterature facile, n'a guere le choix qu'entre deux ou trois procedes d'expression plus ou moins defectueux et parfois inacceptables. Les termes du vocabulaire scientifique ... ne valent que pour les ouvrages specialises, pour lesquels ils sont faits; ces mots-etiquettes vont a l'encontre de la litterature, qui est l'individualite dans l'expression. L'obscenite ... reste une solution exterieure: l'hypocrite lecteur tend a accepter le mot incongru comme une forme de pittoresque, presque d'exotisme ... L'obscenite s'use vite.(4). (2) The fact that Green has almost never used the word homosexual in any of his writings would indicate similar ideas about the unsuitability of medical discourse and obscenity (Green, Interview, 23-24). In order to write about same-sex love, Green and other authors writing about the same subject were therefore forced to create their own lexicons of appropriate expression. …" @default.
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