With Someone, Michael Lucey completes his “misfit” trilogy, which began with The Misfit of the Family (2003), on Balzac, and continued with Never Say I (2006), on Colette, Gide, and Proust. In this final volume, Lucey, very much someone in the intersecting fields of sexuality studies and twentieth-century French fiction, subtly but programmatically moves away from queer theory, toward a subject and a perspective that might be described as postqueer. The first two volumes of his trilogy were published under the auspices of Duke University Press's now-concluded Series Q; while sufficiently informed by queer theory to be considered queer-ish, Someone, the subtitle of which is The Pragmatics of Misfit Sexualities from Colette to Hervé Guibert, makes a point of differentiating its misfits from the queers they might seem to resemble (as, say, the Colette of volume 3 might seem to resemble the Colette of volume...
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August 1, 2021
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August 01 2021
Implication's Implications
Lucey, Michael,
Someone: The Pragmatics of Misfit Sexualities from Colette to Hervé Guibert
(Chicago
: U of Chicago P
, 2019
), pp. 344
, cloth, $90.00.
Joseph Litvak
Joseph Litvak
Tufts University
JOSEPH LITVAK is professor of English at Tufts University. His most recent books are The Un-Americans: Jews, the Blacklist, and Stoolpigeon Culture (2009) and Ahmed the Philosopher (2014), his translation of Alain Badiou's play Ahmed philosophe. He is currently writing a book on comedy and terror.
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Novel (2021) 54 (2): 305–309.
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Joseph Litvak; Implication's Implications. Novel 1 August 2021; 54 (2): 305–309. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/00295132-9004621
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