Abstract
In The Rhetoric of the Other: Lesbian and Gay Strategies of Resistance in French and Francophone Contexts, Martine Antle and Dominique Fisher assemble twelve essays selected from a conference they organized under the same title. By reinserting the implications of contemporary sexual politics into discussions of French and Francophone cultures, the editors make an important contribution to the growing [End Page 124] field of French lesbian and gay studies. They single out republican universalism as a unique obstacle to the recognition of sexual difference in the public sphere, distinct from North American forms of homophobia including its construction of the closet. In addition to building on a tradition of queering the French canon, Rhetoric of the Other carries out nothing less than a queering of the French Republic itself.
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