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UNINA9910466514603321 |
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Autore |
Lavery Carl <1969-> |
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Titolo |
The politics of Jean Genet's late theatre : spaces of revolution / / Carl Lavery |
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Pubbl/distr/stampa |
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Manchester : , : Manchester University Press, , 2010 |
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Edizione |
[Paperback edition.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (vii, 254 pages) : illustrations |
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Collana |
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Theatre : theory, practice, performance |
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Soggetti |
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Politics in literature |
Theater - Political aspects - France |
Electronic books. |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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"First published by Manchester University Press in hardback in 2010"--title page verso |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-248) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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 ; Detournement, 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. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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This title situates the politics of Genet's theatre within the social, spatial and political contexts of France in the 1950's and 1960's. |
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