Beautiful War: Uncommon Violence, Praxis, and Aesthetics in the Novels of Monique Wittig

French lesbian feminist author Wittig (1935-2003) made the gay body a locus of attack in her writing, says Davis (Spanish and French, Western Carolina U.). He argues that she infused violence into her works because of a perplexing lesbian feminist impetus, and invoked privilege as a member of a subculture to confront representations of her minority in much the same way that the terms fagot and nigger are appropriated by people who are subjected to their use as insults. Quotations are in French followed by English translation. There is no index. Annotation 穢2010 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)