Disturbing Attachments: Genet, Modern Pederasty, and Queer History

by Kadji Amin

Book Overview

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"