'Michael Lucey' in OBA Collectie

Imagine trying to tell someone something about yourself and your desires for which there are no words. What if the mere attempt at expression was bound to misfire, to efface the truth of that ineluctable something? In Someone, Michael Lucey considers ch...

This study investigates the place of sexuality in the writings of André Gide. Focusing on his work in the 1920s and 1930s, the years in which Gide wrote most openly about his homosexuality, the text shows how Gide's sexuality reflected his political in...

"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 Ma...

In more than ninety novels and novellas, Honore de Balzac (1799-1850) created a universe teeming with over two thousand characters. The Misfit of the Family reveals how Balzac, in imagining the dense, vividly rendered social world of his novels, used hi...

Since queer theory originated in the early 1990s, its insights and modes of analysis have been taken up by scholars across the humanities and social sciences. In After Sex? prominent contributors to the development of queer studies offer personal reflec...

Interviews met respectievelijk Michael Lucey en Sharon Marcus van de Universiteit van Berkeley in Californië en met Arlette Farge, directeur van het Franse onderzoekcentrum verbonden aan de CNRS, over de noodzaak van homostudies aan Franse universiteite...