The Declared Enemy: Texts and Interviews(Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics)

This posthumous work brings together articles, interviews, statements, prefaces, manifestos, and speeches dating from 1964 to 1985 (just before Genet's death in 1986). These texts bear witness to the many political causes and groups with which Genet felt an affinity, including May '68 and the treatment of immigrants in France, but especially the Black Panthers and the Palestinians. We follow him from the Chicago Democratic Convention (where he met William Burroughs and Alan Ginsberg) to Yale University, where he gave the famous May Day Speech in support of the Black Panthers, to Jordan and the Palestinian camps. Along the way, Genet finds allies (George Jackson, Angela Davis, Leyla Shahid, Tahar Ben Jelloun). And, of course, enemies. Between passionate enmity and passionate affinity, Genet speaks for a politics of protest, with an uncompromising outrage that, today, might seem on the verge of being forgotten. The texts are accompanied by detailed editorial notes.

Table of Contents:
@fmct:Contents @toc4:Translator's Preface iii @toc2:"J.G. Seeks" (1970) 0 1. Interview with Madeleine Gobeil (January 1964) 00 2. Lenin's Mistresses (May 30, 1968) 00 3. The Shepherds of Disorder (March 1, 1969) 00 4. Yet Another Effort, Frenchman! (February 24, 1970) 000 5. "It Seems Indecent for Me to Speak of Myself" (March 10, 1970) 000 6. Letter to American Intellectuals (March 18, 1970) 000 7. May Day Speech (May 1, 1970) 000 8. Interview with Michele Manceaux (May 10, 1970) 000 9. Introduction to Soledad Brother (July 1970) 000 10. Angela and Her Brothers (August 31, 1970) 000 11. Angela Davis Is in Your Clutches (October 16, 1970) 000 12. For George Jackson (March 1971) 000 13. The Palestinians (May 1971) 000 14. The Red and the Black (August 1971) 000 15. After the Assassination (August 1971) 000 16. America Is Afraid (August 1971) 000 17. Preface to L'Assassinat de George Jackson (November 10, 1971) 000 18. Meeting the Guarani (June 2, 1972) 000 19. On Two or Three Books No One Has Ever Talked About (May 2, 1974) 000 20. When "the Worst Is Always Certain" (May 1974) 000 21. Dying Under Giscard d'Estaing (May 11, 1974) 000 22. And Why Not a Fool in Suspenders? (May 25, 1974) 000 23. The Women of Jebel Hussein (July 1, 1974) 000 24. Interview with Hubert Fichte (December 1921, 1975) 000 25. Near Ajloun (October 1970April 1971, and April 1977) 000 26. The Tenacity of American Blacks (April 16, 1977) 000 27. Chartres Cathedral (June 30, 1977) [Editor's note only] 000 28. Violence and Brutality (September 1977) 000 29. Interview with Tahar Ben Jelloun (November 1979) 000 30. The Brothers Karamazov (1981) [Editor's note only] 000 31. Interview with Antoine Bourseiller (Summer 1981) 000 32. Interview with Bertrand Poirot-Delpech (January 25, 1982) 000 33. Four Hours in Shatila (SeptemberOctober 1982) 000 34. Registration No. 1155 (March 1, 1983) 000 35. Interview with Rudiger Wischenbart and Layla Shahid Barrada (December 67, 1983) 000 36. Interview with Nigel Williams (Summer 1985) 000 @toc4:Appendix 1: The Members of the Assembly (August 1968) 000 Appendix 2: A Salute to a Hundred Thousand Stars (September 1968) 000 Chronology 000 Notes 000 Library of Congress Subject Headings for this publication: Genet, Jean, 1910- Interviews, Authors, French 20th century Interviews

About the Author :
Jean Genet (1910-1986), poet, novelist, playwright, and political essayist, was one of the most significant French writers of the twentieth century. His work, much of it considered scandalous when it first appeared, is now placed among the classics of modern literature and has been translated and performed throughout the world.