2002 will mark the 50th anniversary of the publication of Saint
Genet. Ever since that date, Jean Genet's work has largely been
read and interpreted through Sartre's analysis of the author. In
this study, the author seeks to liberate Genet's fiction from the
philosopher's stranglehold and reopen the work to new venues of
interpretation. After challenging the accuracy and pertinence of
Sartre's project and describing the problematic influence it has
had, the author begins his own investigation of Genet by examining
the notion of precarious identity which informs the Genetian text.
Through a dense weft of textual maneuvers arises an aesthetically
playful approach to sexual identity. From the beginnings of work in
the field of sexology, homosexual desire has defied certain types
of rigid schematization such as Freud's Oedipus complex. Indeed, it
can be better viewed through the alternative interpretive lenses of
Deleuze and Guattari who challenge patriarchal order in the study
of sexuality. Such an approach eventually leads to a discovery of
the body's centrality in Genet's fiction, especially in his last
novel Querelle. It is precisely this ludic body that has escaped
Sartre's critical eye and many subsequent studies of Genet's
literature.
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