Genet: numéro spécial de la revue Paragraph

Genet

numéro spécial de la revue Paragraph (27:2, 2004)

The last decade has seen a considerable growth of interest in Genet, now widely recognized as one of the most important French writers of the twentieth-century. From the very beginning, Genet attracted the attention of the major thinkers of his time, as witnessed by the volumes both Sartre and Derrida devoted to him. But recently his writing has proven a mine for readings informed by a whole variety of theories. Including Derrida's first text on Genet since Glas and spanning the spectrum from a Deleuzian study of the event to speech-act analysis and queer theorizations of Genetian power relationships, this collection of articles reflects the diversity of the theoretical approaches currently being applied to his work.

Mairéad Hanrahan, Introduction: Genet and Theory, pp. 1-6

Jacques Derrida, Countersignature, pp. 7-42.

Mairéad Hanrahan, Sculpting Time,  pp. 43-58.

Scott Durham, The Divided Event: The Aesthetics and Politics of Virtuality in Funeral Rites, pp. 59-76.

Tom Conley, A Restive Word, pp. 77-84.

Elizabeth Stephens, Disseminating Phallic Masculinity: Seminal Fluidity in Genet's Fiction, pp. 85-97.

Bénédicte Boisseron et Frieda Ekotto, Genet's The Blacks: And Why Does One Laugh at a Negro?', pp. 98-112.

Clare Finburgh, Speech Without Acts: Politics and Speech-Act Theory in Genet's The Balcony, pp. 113-129.

François Bizet, Bataille's Battle With Genet, pp. 130-145.