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"Jean Genet: Performance and Politics" is the first book to explore
the broad political significance of Genet's performance practice by
focusing on his radical experiments, polemical subjects and formal
innovations in theater, film and dance. Its new approach brings
together the diverse aspects of Genet's work through essays by
international scholars and interviews with such key theater
directors as Richard Schechner, Terry Hands, Cornerstone Theatre
and Jean-Baptiste Sastre.
This is the first book to explore the relationship between
experimental theatre and performance making in France. Reflecting
the recent return to aesthetics and politics in French theory, it
focuses on how a variety of theatre and performance practitioners
use their art work to contest reality as it is currently configured
in France.
This is the first book to explore the relationship between
experimental theatre and performance making in France. Reflecting
the recent return to aesthetics and politics in French theory, it
focuses on how a variety of theatre and performance practitioners
use their art work to contest reality as it is currently configured
in France.
This is the first book to explore the broad political significance
of Genet's performance practice by focusing on his radical
experiments, polemical subjects and formal innovations in theatre,
film and dance. Its new approach brings together the diverse
aspects of Genet's work through essays by international scholars
and interviews.
All the Difference is a riveting memoir about a conservative naval
officer about to navigate marines to Vietnam who had an epiphany of
conscience at Berkeley. A judge ordered Dan when five to leave his
mother and live with his Dad, a naval officer who molds him for the
military. A number of luminous childhood moments reveal that his
Mom and Grandmother "Ruthie" planted seeds in Dan that were bound
to sprout later. He began an intense reading campaign determined to
find gratifying work that would motivate him for the rest of his
life. The book is filled with creative images the writer developed
from his love of nature, and powerful experiences, both deadly and
humorous. The author places himself in real scenes in all his
vulnerability as he faces conflicts, romance, and adventures that
challenge his wits, strength, and determination. He finally
rejected his father's plan for his life and found the "road less
traveled." Inspired to battle for civil rights, Dan becomes an ACLU
attorney for Cesar Chavez's farm workers against some of America's
most powerful forces. He shares illuminating experiences involving
successes and failures while going from a military pawn to a
champion for the poor and powerless, finally able to make a
difference in many lives including his own.
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