Sleeping with the Enemy
Jean Genet's Erotic Reconfiguration of the Occupation
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4386804 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Pascale Gaitet (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1998 |
| Volume | 27 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 73 |
| Publication date | 1998-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | SubStance (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0049-2426 • E-ISSN: 1527-2095 |
| Publisher | Project MUSE (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.2307/3685580 |
| OpenAlex | W2323813251 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
within the context of the German occupation, two texts spring to mind. Both offer a rather conventional representation of the transgression and its consequences. The first is by Paul Eluard. It belongs to a group of poems called Au rendez-vous Allemand (At the German rendez-vous), which Eluard wrote during and about the Liberation of Paris, by which time he had distanced himself from Surrealism.' The poem in question is called Comprenne qui voudra (Understand Who Will) and is preceded by an explanatory note: At that time, in order not to punish the guilty, they mistreated women; they even went so far as to shave their heads. The first stanza reads: Understand who will
Adversary · Art · Context (archaeology) · German · Linguistics · Literature · Poetry · Political science · Politics · Representation (politics) · Stanza · Cinema and Media Studies · French Historical and Cultural Studies · French Literature and Critical Theory · History · Law · Philosophy
| Citations per year | 0.15 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2000 - 2011 (12) |
| Highly cited | No |