Never Say I: Sexuality and the First Person in Colette, Gide, and Proust

Lucey begins Never Say I with a thoughtful introduction contextualizing his discussion of "I" in relation to, on one hand, ideological questions of genre and identity that dominated many twentieth-century writers' narrative reformulations and, on the other, historical and sociolinguistic specificities concerning what he terms "same-sex sexualities" (a slightly clunky formulation that he prefers to the "nonneutrality of the word homosexual" [8]).