Its protagonist, Georges Querelle, is a bisexual thief, prostitute and serial killer who manipulates and kills his lovers for thrills and profit. The novel is set in the midst of the port town of Brest, where sailors and the sea are associated with murder. Even though copies were seized by the authorities, and the author fined, Cocteau’s involvement did little to harm his public reputation.

It was written mostly in 1945 and first published anonymously in 1947 with illustrations throughout by Jean Cocteau who didn’t avoid the explicit details.

MORE INFO ABOUT THE WORK: 'Querelle de Brest is a novel by the French writer Jean Genet. Please expand below for more information.Įach shirt is hand screen printed by us using water-based ink, no digital or automatic screen printers here!

Jones has published articles on Jean Genet and Jean Cocteau, and is currently at work on a book which will examine the writings and political activities of gay writers in France during World War II.See more in our shop: Hand screen-printed Jean Cocteau Illustration for Jean Genet's 'Querelle de Brest' printed in BLUE on BLACK, combed & ring-spun cotton, unisex, classic-fit T-shirts. from the University of Wisconsin – Madison. Drew Jones is an Assistant Professor of French at Queens College CUNY. I.ğreedom and the Evasion of Sexual Identityĭr. Masculine and Feminine as Forces in TheaterĤĜolonizer/Colonized: The Role of Colonial Language in Les Paraventsĥ Homo/Hetero: Naming and Sexual Identity in Querelle de Brest I.ğeminine Writing and Subversive Mimicry I.Ĝharacter Construction in Notre-Dame-des Fleursģělack/White: Feminine Forces and the Subversion of Dominant Discourse in Les Nègres Though the work focuses on Genet, an addition to its appeal is made by the fact that it treats other major twentieth-century thinkers as well: Sartre, Derrida, Cixous, and Irigrary, among others.Ģ Masculine/Feminine: Characterization and Gender Identity in Notre-Dame-des-Fleurs This book approaches the operation of language in Genet’s texts through the lenses of deconstructionism, feminist theory, queer theory, and postcolonial theory. The way in which Genet constructed characters is essential to a proper interpretation and understanding of character traits such as homo- and heterosexuality, blackness and whiteness, masculine and feminine identity. This work analyzes the specific way in which certain binary oppositions are collapsed in the work of Jean Genet, the twentieth-century French writer and political activist. Drew JONES, Jean Genet at the Crossroads: Blurring the Lines of Binary Opposition, Lewiston, Mellen Press, 2007, 120 p.

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