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Book synopsis

Jean Genet's fiction occupies a central but highly controversial position in twentieth-century homosexual literature, celebrated for the originality and frankness of its erotic imagination but also condemned for perpetuating homophobic assumptions about male same-sex desire. This book provides a critical reassessment of this important body of work. It shows how the theory of writing elaborated in Genet's fiction has a productive contribution to make to contemporary queer and literary studies by providing a new approach to homosexual autobiography. Homoerotic writing, for Genet, depends not on the inscription of a stable sexual subjectivity but the mobilisation of a perverse dynamic within the text itself.

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• Full title: Queer Writing
• Subtitle: Homoeroticism in Jean Genet's Fiction
• Author: Elizabeth Stephens
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 214
• EAN: 9780230205857
• ISBN: 0230205852
• ID: 04552090
• Publisher: PALGRAVE MACMILLAN
• Weight: 454 g
• Dimensions: 216 × 140 × 17 mm
• Date of publishing: 16. July 2009

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