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The Politics of Jean Genet's Late Theatre: Spaces of Revolution

The Politics of Jean Genet's Late Theatre: Spaces of Revolution

Lavery, Carl

Paperback

Series: Theatre: Theory - Practice - Performance

French HistoryTheater HistoryPlays

ISBN10: 0719090156
ISBN13: 9780719090158
Publisher: Manchester Univ Pr
Published: Mar 31 2013
Pages: 264
Weight: 0.69
Height: 0.56 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English

The politics of Jean Genet's late 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, 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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