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Queens and Revolutionaries
Pascale Gaitet
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Description for Queens and Revolutionaries
Hardback. "Queens and Revolutionaries" proposes new readings of Genet that focus on the two areas that Saint Genet does not adequately address: sex and politics. Num Pages: 171 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 241 x 165 x 19. Weight in Grams: 445.
Queens and Revolutionaries proposes new readings of Genet that focus on the two areas that Saint Genet does not adequately address: sex and politics. The book first demonstrates how Sartre's empasis on a range of binary oppositions fails to do justice to the complex interplay of agency and determinism in Genet's novels of the 1940s. Using contemporary feminist and gender theory to elucidate the fluctuations, oscillations, and reversals in Genet's representations of cross-dressing and homosexuality, the readings show how these representations in turn reveal those theories limitations. The second half of the book turns to lesser known work dating from ... Read more
Queens and Revolutionaries proposes new readings of Genet that focus on the two areas that Saint Genet does not adequately address: sex and politics. The book first demonstrates how Sartre's empasis on a range of binary oppositions fails to do justice to the complex interplay of agency and determinism in Genet's novels of the 1940s. Using contemporary feminist and gender theory to elucidate the fluctuations, oscillations, and reversals in Genet's representations of cross-dressing and homosexuality, the readings show how these representations in turn reveal those theories limitations. The second half of the book turns to lesser known work dating from ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Associated University Presses United States
Number of pages
171
Condition
New
Number of Pages
171
Place of Publication
Delaware, United States
ISBN
9780874138269
SKU
V9780874138269
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About Pascale Gaitet
Pascale Gaitet is Professor of Literature at the University of California, Santa Cruz.
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