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Shifting paradigms in culture : a study of three plays by Jean Genet - The maids, the balcony and the blacks / Payal Nagpal.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Nagpal, Payal, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Genet, Jean, 1910-1986--Dramatic works.
- Genet, Jean.
- Genet, Jean, 1910-1986. Bonnes.
- Genet, Jean, 1910-1986. Balcon.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (135 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Newcastle upon Tyne, England : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2015.
- Summary:
- Jean Genet is a writer known for contradictions in his life and in his creative endeavours. As a playwright, he has been classified in various categories: as a part of the Theatre of the Absurd, as a representative of the rights of the gay community, as a spokesperson of the Palestinian cause, and so on. His comments about his life and works further complicate things.This book frees Jean Genet's plays from the overpowering Sartrean perspective, and offers an interpretation that reveals the otherwise hidden spaces of the prison, brothel or the maid's garret ingrained in them. The plays selected
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed June 21, 2016).
- ISBN:
- 1-4438-8346-8
- OCLC:
- 925303330
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