The politics of Jean Genet's late theatre : spaces of revolution / Carl Lavery.

Author/creator Lavery, Carl, 1969-
Format Book
Publication InfoManchester ; New York : Manchester University Press : Distibuted in the United State exclusively by Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.
Descriptionviii, 254 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Subjects

SeriesTheatre : theory, practice, performance
Theatre (Manchester, England) ^A1034103
Contents 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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. [235]-248) and index.
LCCN 2010537122
ISBN9780719077135 (hbk.)
ISBN0719077133 (hbk.)

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Joyner General Stacks PQ2613.E53 Z767 2010 ✔ Available Place Hold