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Jean Genet

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Noun1.Jean Genet - French writer of novels and dramas for the theater of the absurd (1910-1986)


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British writer Dominic Johnson, who contributed one of the essays accompanying Lost Boys, gets the contradictions right when he describes Mogutin as "radically" modern yet aligned with the sexual sophistication of an earlier time--a modern-day Jean Genet, as it were.
It's true cross-cultural fusion: West African dancer Koffi Koko and Brazilian dancer Ismael Ivo join Turkish dancer/choreographer Ziya Azazi under Japanese director Yoshi Oida in a radical reinvention of The Maids, the play written by Frenchman Jean Genet.
Noam Chomsky, Jean Genet, Edward Said and others have contributed essays to this intelligent and broad-based exploration of Palestinian life, literature and politics in France, Lebanon and the United States.
 
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