Genet, Jean

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 …