Lavery, Carl, 1969-
Manchester, UK New York : Manchester University Press New York : Distributed in the United States exclusively by Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.
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Part of the series Theatre : theory, practice, performance;Theatre (Manchester, England)
Notes:

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [235]-248) and index.
• Politics and aesthetics: Introduction Genet and commitment : politics and aesthetics Tracing the shift : the event of the wound Aesthetic politics : staging the wound — Spatial politics in the late plays: Exploding the bordello in The balcony : spectacle, allegory and the wound of theatre Détournement, abjection and disidentification in The blacks Bringing it all back home : the battle of The screens Conclusion : Genet our contemporary — Interviews: Interview with Lluís Pasqual Interview with JoAnne Akalaitis Interview with Ultz Interview with Excalibah — Appendix : preface to The blacks / translated by Clare Finburgh.
• This title situates the politics of Genet’s theatre within the social, spatial and political contexts of France in the 1950s and 1960s.

Subjects:

• Genet, Jean, 1910-1986 — Criticism and interpretation.
• Politics in literature.
• Theater — Political aspects — France.

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