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- Resum: This title situates the politics of Genet's theatre within the social, spatial and political contexts of France in the 1950s and 1960s.
Conté: 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.
