Fighting “Humanism” on Its Own Terms

Abstract

mara de gennaro is a doctoral candidate in the Department of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University. She has published an article on Georges Bataille and surrealist primitivism in European Avant-Garde: New Perspectives, and her essay “What Remains of Jean Genet?” will appear in The Yale Journal of Criticism in spring 2003. She is currently completing her dissertation, “Outside of Fiction:Modernist Primitivism, `Race,' and the Humanist Tradition.”