BIBLIOGRAPHY

Webb, Richard C., and Suzanne A. Webb. Jean Genet and His Critics: An Annotated Bibliography, 1943-1980. Metuchen, N.J.: The Scarecrow Press, 1982, 600 p.

Secondary bibliography divided into five sections: “General Studies,” “The Poems,” “The Novels and Autobiography,” “The Plays,” and “Studies of Genet's Articles, Essays, and Prefaces.”

CRITICISM

Kennelly, Brian Gordon. “Dissolving the Divine: The Tragedy of Identity in Genet's ‘Elle’.” Symposium 49, no. 4 (winter 1996): 274-97.

Discusses the “shift in roles” between the two characters in Genet's posthumously published one-act drama “Elle.”

Oswald, Laura. Jean Genet and the Semiotics of Performance. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1989, 169 p.

Semiotic reading of Genet's dramas.

Plotz, John. “Objects of Abjection: The Animation of Difference in Jean Genet's Novels.” Twentieth Century Literature 44, no. 1 (spring 1998): 100-19.

Contends that Genet used inanimate objects in his novels “to address topics which are prohibited in strict philosophical writing.”

Additional coverage of Genet's life and career is contained in the following sources published by the Gale Group: Contemporary Authors, Vol. 13-16R; Contemporary Authors New Revision Series, Vol. 18; Contemporary Literary Criticism, Vols. 1, 2, 5, 10, 14, 44, 46; Dictionary of Literary Biography, Vol. 72; Dictionary of Literary Biography Yearbook, 1986; DISCovering Authors; DISCovering Authors Modules: Dramatists; Drama for Students, Vol. 10; European Writers, Vol. 13; Gay & Lesbian Literature, Ed. 1; Guide to French Literature, 1789 to the Present; Literature Resource Center; and Reference Guide to World Literature, Ed. 2.