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Jean Genet: Critical Essay by Mairéad Hanrahan

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SOURCE: Hanrahan, Mairéad. “An Erotics of Diversity: The Unsuspected Sex of Genet's Heroes.” In Flowers and Revolution: A Collection of Writings on Jean Genet, edited by Barbara Read with Ian Birchall, pp. 63-72. London: Middlesex University Press, 1997.

In the following essay, Hanrahan argues that Genet's sexual symbolism serves to subvert the traditional phallic cult of desire.

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