- Le Corps Lesbien
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name = The Lesbian Body
title_orig = Le Corps Lesbien
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author =Monique Wittig
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country =France
language = French
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genre =Novel
publisher =Les Éditions de Minuit
release_date = 1973
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followed_by ="The Lesbian Body" is a 1973 novel by
Monique Wittig . It was translated into English in 1975.cite news
author=DOUGLAS MARTIN
title=Monique Wittig, 67, Feminist Writer, Dies
date=2003-01-12
work=New York Times
url=http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C00E5DA1731F931A25752C0A9659C8B63&scp=1&sq=%22The+Straight+Mind%22&st=nyt
accessdate=2008-08-05]Plot introduction
According to Wittig's
New York Times obituary, 'lesbian lovers literally invade each other's bodies as an act of love'.Literary significance and criticism
Wittig said, 'When I came upon the title, "Corps Lesbien", the association of these two words made me laugh. It was absurdly sarcastic.'. [Serth Clark Silberman, '"I Have Access to Your Glottis"; The Fleshy Syntax, Ethical Irony, and Queer Intimacy of Monique Wittig's Le Corps Lesbien', "Monique Wittig: At the Crossroads of Criticism", , special issue, Duke University Press, 2007, page 469]
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