SOURCE: Connon, Derek F. “Confused? You Will Be: Genet's Les Nègres and the Art of Upsetting the Audience.” French Studies 50, no. 4 (October 1996): 425-38.
In the following essay, Connon discusses the role of the audience in The Blacks, focusing on Genet's direct implication of its racial composition and his intentional creation of discomfort.
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