Queer Writing provides the first full-length study of homoeroticism in Jean Genet's fiction. It shows how the theory of writing elaborated in his work provides a new way to understand homosexual literature, not as the inscription of a stable sexual subjectivity but as the mobilization of a perverse dynamic within the text.

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ELIZABETH STEPHENS is a Research Fellow at the Centre for the History of European Discourses, University of Queensland, Australia.

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Book Title: Queer Writing
Book Subtitle: Homoeroticism in Jean Genet's Fiction
Authors: Elizabeth Stephens
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230271739
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Palgrave Social & Cultural Studies Collection, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2009
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-230-20585-7Published: 16 July 2009
eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-27173-9Published: 16 July 2009
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 214
Topics: Gender Studies, Twentieth-Century Literature, Literary Theory, Cultural Theory, Fiction

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Table of contents (5 chapters)

Front Matter

Introduction

What Remains of the Author: The Subject in/of Writing

Un Chant d’amour : Homoeroticism and the Closet of Language

Seminal Economies: the Homoerotics of Phallic Masculinity

Towards an Écriture Homosexuelle

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