%0 Journal Article
%T Becoming a Monstrous Text? The Process of Grafting in the Work of Jean Genet and Jacques Derrida¡¯s Glas
%A Claire Lozier
%J Skepsi
%D 2008
%I University of Kent
%X In this paper I will analyse the connections between grafting and writing in both the work of Jean Genet and also Jacques Derrida¡¯s analysis (synthesis?) of Genet¡¯s work. Grafting and writing share a common etymological root: the Greek graphein (¡®to write¡¯). It is particularly interesting to examine the relationship between these terms in Genet¡¯s biographical works (mainly The Thief¡¯s Journal and Miracle of the Rose), as his writing involves a many-layered grafting process. In addition, Derrida¡¯s book on Genet, Glas, besides reflecting on the link between writing and grafting in Genet¡¯s work, is essentially constructed out of quotations from Genet¡¯s texts that Derrida grafts onto his own writing. In the first part of my paper, I will consider the different modalities of grafting that are used in Genet¡¯s and Derrida¡¯s writing. Subsequently, I will examine the reasons why such a process is at the core of their respective texts. Finally, I will consider the extent to which this process leads these texts, made as they are from imported, sutured limbs, to become monstrous ¨C examples of what we could call a ¡®teratography¡¯.
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