Core Reading

Genet, J., Miracle de la rose (1946). Please buy the edition that looks like this:

Advance preparation for seminar discussion

Week 2

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Week 3

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Further Reading

• Amin, K., ‘Spectral Mourning and Carceral Masculinities: Jean Genet’s Miracle de la rose’, French Studies 65, 2 (2011): 200-211.
• Amin, K., 'Anachronizing the Penitentiary, Queering the History of Sexuality', GLQ 19, 3 (2013): 301-40. 
• Bendhif-Syllas, M., 'Les "corps perdus" de Mettray', Revue d'histoire de l'enfance "irrégulière" 8 (2006): 133-148.
  
• Boyle, C., Consuming Autobiographies: Reading and Writing the Self in Post-War France (London: Legenda, 2007). See here.
  
• Champagne, R., ‘Jean Genet in the Delinquent Colony of Mettray: The Development of an Ethical Rite of Passage’, French Forum 26, 3 (2001): 71-90.
• Davis, O., 'Mettray revisited in Jean Genet's Le Langage de la muraille', French History 30, 4 (December 2016): 546-566.
• Driver, F., ‘Discipline Without Frontiers? Representations of the Mettray Reformatory Colony in Britain, 1840–1880’, Journal of Historical Sociology 3, 3 (1990): 272–293.
• Foucault, M., Surveiller et punir: naissance de la prison (Paris: Gallimard, 1975), 'Le carcéral', pp. 343-360. See here.
• Genet, J. Miracle de la rose (Paris: Gallimard, 1946), in Oeuvres complètes, v. 2. See here.
• Gerber, B., ‘Genet’s “Miracle de la Rose”: An Alchemical Vision’, SubStance 1, 3 (1972): 101-8.
• Hardt, M., ‘Prison Time’, Yale French Studies 91 (1991): 64-79.
• Marty, E., Bref séjour à Jérusalem (Paris: Gallimard, 2003), pp. 91-106. See here.
• Marty, E., Jean Genet, post-scriptum (Lagrasse: Verdier, 2006). See here.
• Petit, J.-G., Histoire des prisons en France, 1789-2000 (Toulouse: Privat, 2002), ch. 4, pp. 135-168.
  
• Petit, J.-G., Ces Peines obscures: la prison pénale en France, 1780-1875 (Paris: Fayard, 1990).
• Pierre, E. ‘F.-A. Demetz et la colonie agricole de Mettray. Entre réformisme “romantique” et injonctions administratives’, Paedagogica Historica 38, 2–3 (2002): 451–466.
• Plunka, G., The Rites of Passage of Jean Genet: The Art and Aesthetics of Risk Taking (London: Associated University Presses Inc., 1992), ch. 4, pp. 74-88.
• Pottier, G.-F., ‘La colonie agricole et pénitentiaire de Mettray pendant le séjour de Jean Genet de septembre 1926 à mars 1929’, in Forlivesi, Pottier and Chassat (eds.), Éduquer et punir: la colonie agricole et pénitentiaire de Mettray, 1839-1937 (Rennes: Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2005), pp. 197-210. [Please see lecturer.]
• Ramsland, J., ‘Mettray: A Corrective Institution for Delinquent Youth in France, 1840–1937’, Journal of Educational Administration and History 22, 1 (1990): 30–46
• Ripley, C., 'Safe as Houses: The Mettray Colony as Seen by Jean Genet', Space and Culture 9, 4 (2006): 400-17 [Please see lecturer.]
• Sauvestre, C., Une Visite à Mettray (Paris: Hachette, 1864).
• Stephens, E., Queer Writing: Homoeroticism in Jean Genet's Fiction (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009), in particular ch.3, pp.96-137.
• White, E., Genet: A Biography (London: Vintage, 1994), in particular ch. 3, pp. 46-96.
• Yvorel, J.-J., ‘Esquisse d’une histoire de la prise en charge de l’enfance délinquante aux XIXe et XXe siècles’, in Forlivesi, Pottier and Chassat (eds.), Éduquer et punir: la colonie agricole et pénitentiaire de Mettray, 1839-1937 (Rennes: Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2005), pp. 9-25. [Please see lecturer.]

 

Slides

Slides for the Week 2 lecture are available for download here.

Slides for the Week 3 lecture are available for download here.