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Declared Enemy: Salute to 100001 Stars: A Tribute to Jean Genet
by Seamus Seoighe
Jean Genet was born the illegitimate child of a prostitute who spent a majority of his youth wandering between the prison systems of Europe for theft, smuggling and male prostitution. As a writer, he was noticed by Jean-Paul Sartre through whom he was able to achieve some popular support, but throughout his life he would remain an outsider to a world looking in. It is this outsider-as-artist quality in Genet's work that bandleader Matthew Shipp cites as a primary influence ...
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