Antonin Artaud's alternate genealogies
Subtitle: self-portraits and family romances
By: John C. Stout.
Publisher: Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Published: 1996
Place of publication: Waterloo, Ont
Language: eng
Number of pages: 134
Subjects: Artaud, Antonin, -- 1896-1948 -- Criticism and interpretation
Other titles: Alternate genealogies.
Description: In Antonin Artaud's Alternate Genealogies Stout analyzes two separate but interrelated preoccupations central to Artaud's work: the self-portrait and the family romance. He shows how Artaud, in several important but relatively neglected texts, rewrites the life stories of historical and literary figures with whom he identifies, including Paolo Ucello, Abelard, Van Gogh and Shelley's Francesco Cenci, in an attempt to reinvent himself through the image, or life, of another.

Throughout the book Stout focuses on Artaud's struggles to recover the sense of self that eludes him and to master the reproductive process by recreating the family in - and as - his own fantasies of it.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 125-131) and index.