The politics of Jean Genet's late theatre

Spaces of revolution

By: Carl Lavery, Maria M. Delgado (Editor), Maggie B. Gale (Editor), Peter Lichtenfels (Editor)

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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 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 Ranciere 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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Lavery's brilliant analysis of the political meanings of Genet's late drama can be understood as paying homage to Genet's conceptual recedents. Thus does Lavery become part of a unique school of scholars, including Derrida, whose theoretical work reflects mimetically and matches the complexity of Genet's own theorizing. -- .

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List of figures	p. ix
Acknowledgements	p. x
Politics and aesthetics
Introduction	p. 1
Genet and commitment: politics and aesthetics	p. 21
Tracing the shift: the event of the wound	p. 49
Aesthetic politics: staging the wound	p. 78
Spatial politics in the late plays
Exploding the bordello in The Balcony: spectacle, allegory and the wound of theatre	p. 105
Détournement, abjection and disidentification in The Blacks	p. 136
Bringing it all back home: the battle of The Screens	p. 168
Conclusion: Genet our contemporary	p. 195
Interviews
Interview with Lluís Pasqual	p. 201
Interview with JoAnne Akalaitis	p. 208
Interview with Ultz	p. 215
Interview with Excalibah	p. 221
Appendix: 'Preface to The Blacks', translated	p. 227
References	p. 235
Index	p. 249
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