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Never Say I - Sexuality and the First Person in Colette, Gide, and Proust (Paperback)
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Never Say I - Sexuality and the First Person in Colette, Gide, and Proust (Paperback)
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Never Say I reveals the centrality of representations of sexuality,
and particularly same-sex sexual relations, to the evolution of
literary prose forms in twentieth-century France. Rethinking the
social and literary innovation of literary works by Marcel Proust,
Andre Gide, and Colette, Michael Lucey considers these writers'
production of a first-person voice in which matters related to
same-sex sexuality could be spoken of. He shows how their writings
and careers took on political and social import in part through the
contribution they made to the representation of social groups that
were only slowly coming to be publicly recognized. Proust, Gide,
and Colette helped create - and also sometimes themselves embodied
and enacted - persons and characters, points of view, and narrative
practices from which to speak and write about people attracted to
those of the same sex, or for them, or as them. Considering novels
along with journalism, theatrical performances, correspondences,
and face-to-face encounters, Lucey focuses on the interlocking
social and formal dimensions of the use of the first person.
category but also as a collectively produced social artifact,
demonstrating that Proust's, Gide's, and Colette's use of the
first-person involved a social process of assuming the authority to
speak about certain issues, or on behalf of certain people. Lucey
reveals the three writers as both practitioners and theorists of
the first-person; he traces how, when they figured themselves or
another first person in certain statements regarding same-sex
identity, they self-consciously called attention to the creative
effort involved in doing so.
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