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035			_a(OCoLC)1259584952
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100	1		_aOswald, Laura R.
245	1	0	_aJean Genet and the Semiotics of Performance / _cLaura Oswald.
264		1	_aBloomington : _bIndiana University Press, _c1989.
264		3	_aBaltimore, Md. : _bProject MUSE, _c2021
264		4	_c©1989.
300			_a1 online resource.
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
490	0		_aAdvances in semiotics
506	0		_aOpen Access _fUnrestricted online access _2star
520			_aWhen Jean Genet, the enfant terrible of the French theater, died on April 15, 1986, he left a rich and controversial literary legacy. Genet, a homosexual and ex-convict, wrote about events and in a language that could ruffle the complacency of the most sophisticated reader. His work can be seen as a struggle of the social outcast to be heard from beyond the borders of the dominant, heterosexual culture. This challenging book tracks the effects of this struggle in Genet's novels, plays, film, and political essays by means of a general semiotics of performance. By staging a dialogue between Genet and writers such as Derrida, Bakhtin, Metz, Ricoeur, and Benveniste, Laura Oswald pursues the question of performance in the form of a debate rather than that of a closed theoretical system. Her approach puts into play relations between semiotics and philosophy and provides a means of understanding the relationship between Genet's poetics and his radical politics. By focusing on the role of the double in Genet's literary imagination and by reading Genet with his "others" in the realm of theory, Oswald comes to grips with the overriding concerns of a man whose life in literature was never very far from his life as prisoner, as outcast, as self-proclaimed exile.
588			_aDescription based on print version record.
600	1	7	_aGenet, Jean, _d1910-1986. _2fast _0(OCoLC)fst00036640
600	1	6	_aGenet, Jean, _d1910- _xCritique et interpretation.
600	1	0	_aGenet, Jean, _d1910-1986 _xCriticism and interpretation.
650		7	_aSemiotics and literature. _2fast _0(OCoLC)fst01112369
650		6	_aSemiotique et litterature.
650		0	_aSemiotics and literature _zFrance.
651		7	_aFrance. _2fast _0(OCoLC)fst01204289
655		7	_aCriticism, interpretation, etc. _2fast _0(OCoLC)fst01411635
655		7	_aElectronic books. _2local
710	2		_aProject Muse. _edistributor
830		0	_aBook collections on Project MUSE.
856	4	0	_zFull text available: _uhttps://muse.jhu.edu/book/84777/
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