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Article: Gaitet, Pascale. Queens and Revolutionaries: New Readings of Jean Genet.(Book Review)
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- Studies in the Novel
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- June 22, 2005
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GAITET, PASCALE. Queens and Revolutionaries: New Readings of Jean Genet. Newark: University of Delaware Press, 2003. 171 pp. $38.50 (hardcover).
Not much has happened in Genet scholarship for over a decade, ever since Edmund White published his quintessential study (Genet: A Biography, 1993) of the legendary, gay poet-thief who became one of the most celebrated novelists and playwrights in French literary history. Nevertheless, Pascale Gaiter has just added another chapter to a dialogue that began with Sartre's study Saint Genet (1952), a text she reacts against as well as relies upon to keep this dialogue in motion. Specifically, Gaiter takes issue with Sartre's ...