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The Politics of Jean Genet's Late Theatre : Spaces of Revolution

By Carl Lavery; Maria M. Delgado; Maggie B. Gale; Peter Lichtenfels

Book information

Publisher
Manchester University Press
Year
2010
ISBN
9781526130402, 9780719090158
LCC
PQ2613.E53 .L384 2010
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
4 MB (3827628 bytes)
Series
Theatre: Theory - Practice - Performance Ser.
Edition
1
Pages
265\265
Time added
2023-08-20 11:11:39
GenetJean,-1910-1986-Criticism and interpretation. ; Po

Description

The politics of Jean Genet's late theatre is the first publication to situate the politics of Genet's theatre within the social, spatial and political contexts of France in the 1950s and 1960s. The book's innovative approach departs significantly from existing scholarship on Genet. Where scholars have tended to bracket Genet as either an absurdist, ritualistic or, more recently, a resistant playwright, this study argues that his theory and practice of political theatre have more in common with the affirmative ideas of thinkers such as Henri Lefebvre, Jacques Rancière and Alain Badiou. By doing so, the monograph positions Genet as a revolutionary playwright, interested in producing progressive forms of democracy. This original and interdisciplinary reading of Genet's late work will be of interest to students and practitioners of Theatre, as well as those interested in French and History.

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