| Description |
1 online resource. |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
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text file |
| Series |
Theatre : theory, practice, performance
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Theatre (Manchester, England)
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| Contents |
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 Détournement, abjection and disidentifi cation in The Blacks; 6 Bringing it all back home: the battle of The Screens |
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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 |
| Summary |
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 Rancière and Alain Badiou. By doing so. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Genet, Jean, 1910-1986 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Genet, Jean, 1910-1986. |
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Criticism and interpretation. |
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Politics in literature.
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Politics in literature. |
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Theater -- Political aspects -- France.
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Theater -- Political aspects. |
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France. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| ISBN |
9781526130402 (electronic book) |
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1526130408 (electronic book) |
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9780719077135 |
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9780719090158 |
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