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Yehuda Jean-Bernard Moraly. L’Œuvre Impossible: Claudel, Genet, Fellini. Paris: Éditions Le Manuscrit, 2013. 207 Pp., Eric Touya De Marenne
Yehuda Jean-Bernard Moraly. L’Œuvre Impossible: Claudel, Genet, Fellini. Paris: Éditions Le Manuscrit, 2013. 207 Pp., Eric Touya De Marenne
Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature
Review of Yehuda Jean-Bernard Moraly. L’Œuvre impossible: Claudel, Genet, Fellini. Paris: Éditions le Manuscrit, 2013. 207 pp.
"What Exactly Is A Black?": Interrogating The Reality Of Race In Jean Genet's The Blacks , Debby Thompson
"What Exactly Is A Black?": Interrogating The Reality Of Race In Jean Genet's The Blacks , Debby Thompson
Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature
On the dedication page of The Blacks, Genet writes "One evening an actor asked me to write a play for an all-black cast. But what exactly is a black? First of all, what's his color?" Prefiguring major issues and paradoxes of African American cultural studies today, The Blacks insists on the very real ways in which the black/white racial binary, like the very concept of race itself, is lived and socially enforced, and at the same time argues that the binary is ultimately a fiction, made real through performative reification. Genet's "clown show," ambiguously reversing the blackface minstrelsy tradition, …