Genet's Genres of Politics
Mairéad Hanrahan
Click cover to enlarge Buy hardback at: Booksellers & libraries: | Research Monographs in French Studies 50 Legenda 22 April 2023 • 218pp ISBN: 978-1-781887-11-0 (hardback) • RRP £95, $120, €120 ISBN: 978-1-781884-38-6 (paperback, forthcoming) ISBN: 978-1-781884-39-3 (JSTOR ebook) Access online: Books@JSTOR ContemporaryFrenchFictionDrama In this book, Mairéad Hanrahan examines the shifts in political focus in Genet’s writing, from the intimate fantasies of the early novels to the struggle for emancipation of the Palestinians in the posthumously published Un Captif amoureux. She argues that his texts have always been centrally concerned with power relations, challenging from the very beginning the opposition that traditionally confines the political to the public sphere. Genet’s writing has always been political — but Hanrahan argues also that it was never solely political. On the contrary, a tension always existed for him between the poetic and the political. Genet’s changing focus from the personal to the public is explored via the shifts in his practice of genre. Analysing how genre and politics are inextricably involved in Genet’s writing, Hanrahan highlights a core paradox in its evolution. This writer who remained constant over the course of his life in his opposition to hegemonic power relations grappled throughout his work with the suspicion that his art may serve to shore up the very structures he unreservedly contests. Yet his writing also testifies, in both what it says and what it does, to the idea that literature is fundamentally at odds with the social order of the world. Mairéad Hanrahan is Professor of French at University College London.
For a contents listing, see this volume at JSTOR. Bibliography entry: Hanrahan, Mairéad, Genet's Genres of Politics, Research Monographs in French Studies, 50 (Legenda, 2023) First footnote reference: 35 Mairéad Hanrahan, Genet's Genres of Politics, Research Monographs in French Studies, 50 (Legenda, 2023), p. 21. Subsequent footnote reference: 37 Hanrahan, p. 47. (To see how these citations were worked out, follow this link.) Bibliography entry: Hanrahan, Mairéad. 2023. Genet's Genres of Politics, Research Monographs in French Studies, 50 (Legenda) Example citation: ‘A quotation occurring on page 21 of this work’ (Hanrahan 2023: 21). Example footnote reference: 35 Hanrahan 2023: 21. (To see how these citations were worked out, follow this link.) This title is distributed on behalf of MHRA by Ingram’s. Booksellers and libraries can order direct from Ingram by setting up an ipage Account: click here for more. Permanent link to this title: www.mhra.org.uk/publications/Genets-Genres-Politics www.mhra.org.uk/publications/rmfs-50 |
