Jean Genet and the politics of theatre is the first publication to
situate the politics of Genet's theatre within the social, spatial
and political contexts of France in the 1950s and 1960s. The book's
innovative approach departs significantly from existing scholarship
on Genet. Where scholars have tended to bracket Genet as either an
absurdist, ritualistic or, more recently, a resistant playwright,
this study argues that his theory and practice of political theatre
have more in common with the affirmative ideas of thinkers such as
Henri Lefebvre, Jacques Ranciere and Alain Badiou. By doing so, the
monograph positions Genet as a revolutionary playwright, interested
in producing progressive forms of democracy. This original and
interdisciplinary reading of Genet's late work will be of interest
to students and practitioners of Theatre, as well as those
interested in French and History. -- .
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