Jones, David Andrew

Dr. David Andrew Jones is an Assistant Professor of French at Queens College CUNY. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin – Madison. Dr. Jones has published articles on Jean Genet and Jean Cocteau, and is currently at work on a book which will examine the writings and political activities of gay writers in France during World War II.

Blurring Categories of Identity in Contee

2007 0-7734-5349-0
This work analyzes the specific way in which certain binary oppositions are collapsed in the work of Jean Genet, the twentieth-century French writer and political activist. The way ter traits such as homo- and heterosexuality, blackness and whiteness, masculine and feminine identity. This book approaches the operation of language in Genet’s texts through the lenses of deconstructionism, feminist theory, queer theory, and postcolonial theory. Though the work focuses on Genet, an addition to its appeal is made by the fact that it treats other major twentieth-century thinkers as well: Sartre, Derrida, Cixous, and Irigrary, among others.