| Summary: | This article is about gender subversion and political rebellion in the artistic works of Claude Cahun. Her most achieved book is entitled Aveux non avenus. It resists all literary categorisation and gives an impression of disorder. Actually, this is how Claude Cahun suggests that our mind, our sexuality, our identity can not be explained in terms of established classifications. This rebellion against social conventions also appears in political texts that Claude Cahun wrote in collaboration with the Surrealist group. In an important pamphlet, Les Paris sont ouverts, Cahun shows the political implications of gender subversion. Furthermore, she concretely applied this strategy during the Second World War and the German Occupation in Jersey with the help of her lover, Suzanne Malherbe. Adopting the surname of “The Unnamed Soldier” on pamphlets she wrote, Cahun used masks to fight for freedom.
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