GENET (Jean). - Lot 84

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GENET (Jean). - Lot 84
GENET (Jean). Autograph notes. Circa 1970-1972. Approx. 45 folio pages in 2 notebooks, more than half detached. JEAN GENET MILITANT IN FAVOR OF THE BLACK PANTHERS PARTY. After being approached by the Black Panthers in February 1970, Jean Genet decided not only to act as their liaison in France, but also to take personal action on their behalf in the United States: he went there and stayed for two months (March-April of the same year, without a visa), living in the ghettos, giving lectures at universities, taking part in debates and writing articles. He also published a collection in support of one of the founders of the Black Panthers Party, Bobby Seale, sentenced to prison in 1969: Here and now for Bobby Seale (NewYork, Committee to defend the Panthers, 1970). REFLECTIONS ON THE BLACK QUESTION IN THE UNITED STATES. This collection places the action of the Black Panthers in the long series of popular revolts, talks about the weapon of laughter and poetry, evokes the trial of Bobby Seale after the Chicago riots in 1968, analyzes the attitude of journalists and academics in this respect, and discusses the role of culture and access to education in raising the consciousness of the oppressed, on the fundamental difference in America between the voluntary migration of whites and the forced arrival of black slaves, the relationship of American blacks to Africa ("Africa adored, Africa hated, it's obviously the same thing"), the relationship of blacks to justice, to the police, the Marxist analysis of the situation of blacks in relation to white revolutionary organizations, the means of action (violence, militancy through the press, leaflets or demonstrations, etc.), sexuality, the limits of the right to self-determination and the right to self-determination.), sexuality, the limits of white speech, the relationship between political and moral issues, the place of the Black Panther movement within emancipatory forces in favor of blacks. He reflects on his own position vis-à-vis the movement, and shares anecdotes, such as his summons to appear before the central committee of the Black Panthers, who were hostile to him on the face of it, and the discussions that were interrupted by a police raid. He also talks about various personalities in the movement, including Malcolm X and David Hilliard. " ... It may soon be forgotten, this icy wind that bristled at the whites, this tender breath that brushed against the blacks (I heard an American television announcer - a white man - talk about the Panthers using this expression: "the ugly nightmare we're living through"), the Black Panther Part[y] will have been decisive. IT'S UNLIKELY THAT WHITES WILL REGAIN THEIR ALMIGHTY ARROGANCE: BLACKS ARE AWAKE. Every Panther, man and woman, will have realized this through courage and fear. Two young men will have willed it: Bobby Seale and Huey Newton..." "My agreement with the Panthers - and therefore with Bobby Seale and my willingness to defend him - lay less in an adherence to their programs than in a complicity, pre-existing those programs, in a very anterior connivance. THEIR VIOLENCE DIDN'T BOTHER ME. I FOUND IN IT, WITH IT, THE VIOLENCE THAT HAD ALWAYS CARRIED ME. In other words, I was less moved by the injustice they had suffered than by the rebellion they embodied...".
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