The politics of Jean Genet's late theatre : Spaces of revolution /

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Jean Genet and the politics of 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 scho...

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Autor principal: Lavery, Carl, 1969- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Manchester : Manchester University Press, [2013]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Genet, Jean, > 1910-1986.
Genet, Jean, > 1910-1986 > Criticism and interpretation.
Theater > Political aspects.
Politics in literature.
DRAMA > Continental European.
Theâtre > Aspect politique > France.
Theater > Political aspects > France.
France.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • The politics of Jean Genet's late theatre: Spaces of revolution; Half Title Page; Series Page; Title Page; Copyright; Dedication; CONTENTS; FIGURES; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; PART I: Politics and aesthetics; 1 Genet and commitment: politics and aesthetics; 2 Tracing the the event of the wound; 3 Aesthetic politics: staging the wound; PART II: Spatial politics in the late plays; 4 Exploding the bordello in The Balcony: spectacle, allegory and the wound of theatre; 5 Detournement, abjection and disidentifi cation in The Blacks; 6 Bringing it all back home: the battle of The Screens
  • 7 Conclusion: Genet our contemporaryPART III: Interviews; 8 Interview with Lluís Pasqual; 9 Interview with JoAnne Akalaitis; 10 Interview with Ultz; 11 Interview with Excalibah; APPENDIX: 'PREFACE TO THE BLACKS'1; REFERENCES; INDEX

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