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Department of English and Comparative Literature
University of Cincinnati
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Jean Genet - Bibliography

Secondary Sources on The Thief's Journal:

Sheringham, Michael. "Narration and Experience in Genet's Journal du voleur," in Studies in French Fiction in Honour of Vivienne Milne, edited by Robert Gibson. London: Grant & Cutler, 1988, pp. 298-106.

Todd, Jane Marie. "Autobiography and the Case of the Signature: Reading Derridaís Glas," Comparative Literature, Eugene, OR. 1986 Winter, 38:1, 1-19.

White, Edmund. "The Novelist Thief," Brick 1993 Winter, 47, 3-4

Secondary Sources on Genet as Saint & Saint Genet:

Kaplan, H. J.. "The Apostle of Inversion," The New Criterion, New York, NY. 1993 Nov, 12:3, 68-72.

Kocay, Victor. "Literary Criticism as Allegory: Sartreís Saint Genet," Allegory Revisited: Ideals of Mankind, edited by in Tymieniecka Anna Teresa. Dordrecht: Kluwer Acad. under Auspices of World Inst. for Advanced Phenomenological Research and Learning, 1994, pp. 333-343.

Skakoon, Walter S.. "Romance and ressentiment: Saint Genet," in Sartre Alive, edited by Ronald Aronson and Adrian van den Hoven. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1991, pp. 269-82.

Secondary Sources on Genet's Late Work -- Political:

Said, Edward W.. "On Jean Genet's Late Works," in Imperialism and Theatre: Essays on World Theatre, Drama and Performance, edited by J. Ellen Gainor. London : Routledge, 1995, pp. 230-42. xv, 264 pp.

Sandarg, Robert. "Jean Genet in Chicago," Romance Quarterly, Washington, DC. 1991 Feb, 38:1, 39-47.

Secondary Sources on Un Captif amoureux:

Davis, Colin. "Un Captif amoureux and the Commitment of Jean Genet," French Studies Bulletin: A Quarterly Supplement, Nottingham, England. 1987 Summer, 23, 16-18.

Walker, David H.. "Un Captif amoureux: Poetry and Politics," Forum for Modern Language Studies, Oxford, England. 1995 Oct, 31:4, 312-25.

General Secondary SourcesóInterviews, Etc.:

De Grazia, Edward. "An Interview with Jean Genet," Cardozo Studies in Law and Literature, New York, NY. 1993 Fall, 5:2, 307-24.

White, Edmund. "Once a Sodomite, Twice a Philosopher," Harvard Gay and Lesbian Review 1996 Fall, 3:1, 15-17.

Bersani, Leo. "The Gay Outlaw," Diacritics: A Review of Contemporary Criticism, Baltimore, MD. 1994 Summer-Fall, 24:2-3, 5-18.

Strauss, Walter A.. "The Total Outsider: Jean Genet," in Selected Essays from the International Conference on The Outsider 1988, edited by John Micheal Crafton. Carrollton: West Georgia College, 1990, pp. 87-97.

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