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• catalog abstract ""This study of Jean Genet demonstrates that his writings have much to tell us about the questions of identity, sex, gender, and politics that haunt us today. Indeed, Queens and Revolutionaries proposes new readings of his work that focus on the two areas which Sartre's Saint Genet does not adequately address: sex and politics. The book first demonstrates how Sartre's analyses, because of their uncritical reliance on a range of binary oppositions, fail to do justice to the complex interplay of agency and determinism in Genet's novels of the 1940s and fail to understand how Genet's erotic vision challenges and ultimately undoes the hierarchies and structures through which gender is usually constructed. Using recent feminist and gender theory - from Helene Cixous's notion of feminine writing to Judith Butler's theories of performative gender - 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 and encourage a re-invitation of Lacan's work on the veiled phallus." "The second half of the book turns to lesser-known texts dating from the late 1960s onward, and to the posthumously published Prisoner of Love, in order to contest Sartre's insistence on the nonpolitical nature of Genet's work. It examines Genet's writing on the Black Panthers and the Palestinians, highlighting his political engagement and support of these groups after May '68. It also traces the continuities from his earlier work linking, for example, the aesthetics of transvestism with the aesthetics of post-'68 revolutionary movements, and showing how revolutionary aesthetics, theatricality, and performance are now increasingly reconceptualized as explicitly political acts and related to the politics of "camp" developed in the earlier texts - but that Genet is nonetheless not without recognizing the importance of the material aspects of the struggle. In fact, he engages the two realms - the material and the performative - in a manner that recalls the dynamic relationship between essentialism and existentialism that pervades earlier representations of gender and the erotic."--Jacket.".
• catalog contributor b12951662.
• catalog created "c2003.".
• catalog date "2003".
• catalog date "c2003.".
• catalog dateCopyrighted "c2003.".
• catalog description ""This study of Jean Genet demonstrates that his writings have much to tell us about the questions of identity, sex, gender, and politics that haunt us today. Indeed, Queens and Revolutionaries proposes new readings of his work that focus on the two areas which Sartre's Saint Genet does not adequately address: sex and politics. The book first demonstrates how Sartre's analyses, because of their uncritical reliance on a range of binary oppositions, fail to do justice to the complex interplay of agency and determinism in Genet's novels of the 1940s and fail to understand how Genet's erotic vision challenges and ultimately undoes the hierarchies and structures through which gender is usually constructed. ".
• catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 159-163) and index.".
• catalog description "It also traces the continuities from his earlier work linking, for example, the aesthetics of transvestism with the aesthetics of post-'68 revolutionary movements, and showing how revolutionary aesthetics, theatricality, and performance are now increasingly reconceptualized as explicitly political acts and related to the politics of "camp" developed in the earlier texts - but that Genet is nonetheless not without recognizing the importance of the material aspects of the struggle. In fact, he engages the two realms - the material and the performative - in a manner that recalls the dynamic relationship between essentialism and existentialism that pervades earlier representations of gender and the erotic."--Jacket.".
• catalog description "To Sculpt a Stone -- The Flower of Their Strength -- The Shadow of a Gun -- Bullets at the Milky Way -- Conclusion: 1945/1968.".
• catalog description "Using recent feminist and gender theory - from Helene Cixous's notion of feminine writing to Judith Butler's theories of performative gender - 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 and encourage a re-invitation of Lacan's work on the veiled phallus." "The second half of the book turns to lesser-known texts dating from the late 1960s onward, and to the posthumously published Prisoner of Love, in order to contest Sartre's insistence on the nonpolitical nature of Genet's work. It examines Genet's writing on the Black Panthers and the Palestinians, highlighting his political engagement and support of these groups after May '68. ".
• catalog extent "171 p. ;".
• catalog hasFormat "Queens and revolutionaries.".
• catalog identifier "0874138264 (alk. paper)".
• catalog isFormatOf "Queens and revolutionaries.".
• catalog issued "2003".
• catalog issued "c2003.".
• catalog language "eng".
• catalog publisher "Newark : University of Delaware Press ; London ; Cranbury, NJ : Associated University Presses,".
• catalog relation "Queens and revolutionaries.".
• catalog subject "848/.91209 21".
• catalog subject "Genet, Jean, 1910-1986 Criticism and interpretation.".
• catalog subject "Homosexuality in literature.".
• catalog subject "PQ2613.E53 Z66 2003".
• catalog subject "Revolutionaries in literature.".
• catalog subject "Transvestites in literature.".
• catalog tableOfContents "To Sculpt a Stone -- The Flower of Their Strength -- The Shadow of a Gun -- Bullets at the Milky Way -- Conclusion: 1945/1968.".
• catalog title "Queens and revolutionaries : new readings of Jean Genet / Pascale Gaitet.".
• catalog type "Criticism, interpretation, etc. fast".
• catalog type "text".