Disturbing Attachments: Genet, Modern Pederasty, and Queer History

(Part of the Theory Q Series)

by Kadji Amin

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Jean Genet (1910-1986) resonates, perhaps more than any other canonical queer figure from the pre-Stonewall past, with contemporary queer sensibilities attuned to a defiant non-normativity. Not only sexually queer, Genet was also a criminal and a social pariah, a bitter opponent of the police state, and an ally of revolutionary anticolonial movements. In Disturbing Attachments , Kadji Amin challenges the idealization of Genet as a paradigmatic figure...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0822369176

ISBN13:9780822369172

Release Date:October 2017

Publisher:Duke University Press

Length:272 Pages

Weight:0.85 lbs.

Dimensions:0.6" x 3.7" x 9.0"

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