Table of Contents

Acknowledgments Abbreviations Introduction 1. Vague Inquietudes and Uncertain Desires 2. Rebirthing the Past 3. Machinating (and Confessing) the Mekhane 4. Sculpting Desire 5. Social Contract, Masochist Contract Conclusion Notes Works Cited Index

About the Author

Faycal Falaky is Assistant Professor of French at Tulane University.

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"…Falaky's work offers historians as well as literary critics a new way to think through the possibilities for future research on some well-trodden ground, and it engages important questions about the relationship of sexuality to civic behavior. For these contributions, it is to be lauded." — Journal of Modern History