In memoriam : monuments, memorials, and the revolutionary dead in the work of Jean Genet

This thesis investigates the memorial and monumental aspects of Jean Genet’s final memoir, Un captif amoureux. My introduction discusses biographical reading as a predominant trend in the critical literature and argues that this way of reading Genet empties out the political force of a deeply commit...

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Main Author: Reddon, Madeleine
Language:English
Published: University of British Columbia 2014
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/2429/51268