A biography of the French novelist, poet and playwright who became an icon of the gay movement, but also a champion of the despised and marginalized.
We live in a neoliberal regime that works to dismantle social institutions and eradicate forms of collective gathering. Over and against this state of affairs, 'Collectivity in Struggle' revisits a crucial moment in recent history when the formation of collectivity sat at the he…
Genet: in the language of the enemy
Genet: in the language of the enemy
This volume investigates the stakes and boundaries of this war for Genet and for his readers, offering new interpretations of his works and showing how they oblige us to rethink our own relations, as readers and interpreters, to literature itself.
With the advent of virtual reality, synthetic images and the immediacy of material available through the “information superhighway,” not to mention the permutation of mass media images via television, cinema, and videos into daily life, the screen in a large sense has come to pl…
This dissertation and the grouping of the texts (Jean Genet, Marguerite Duras, Tahar Ben Jelloun, Rachid O.) performs and foretells an evolution in gay and lesbian studies where ideally an “integration” would be as manifold as there are people. My discussion aims at conceptualiz…
In the decade from 1939 to 1949, French society underwent extreme social and political upheaval. My project looks at this particular decade in which questions pertaining to fathers and fatherhood arose as a product of the war and the occupation, and argues that national anxiety …
Offering a piercing indictment of what we have let ourselves become, this short, critical work is a damning critique of the current age and of the democratic systems that characterize it. Alain Badiou argues that any truly radical politics must begin with dismantling the obscene…