Queer Writing provides the first full-length study of homoeroticism in Jean Genet's fiction. It shows how the theory of writing elaborated in his work provides a new way to understand homosexual literature, not as the inscription of a stable sexual subjectivity but as the mobilization of a perverse dynamic within the text.

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ELIZABETH STEPHENS is a Research Fellow at the Centre for the History of European Discourses, University of Queensland, Australia.

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Contents Acknowledgements Notes on Translations and Editions Abbreviations Introduction What Remains of the Author: The Subject in/of Writing Un Chant d'amour: Homoeroticism and the Closet of Language Seminal Economies: The Homoerotics of Phallic Masculinity Towards an écriture homosexuelle Bibliography Index