Antonin artaud's alternate genealogies: Self-portraits and family romances

Most readers know Antonin Artaud as a theorist of the theatre and as a playwright, director and actor manqu Now John C. Stout's highly original study installs Artaud as a writer and theorist of biography. In 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 …