Disturbing AttachmentsJean Genet (19101986) resonates, perhaps more than any other canonical queer figure from the pre Stonewall past, with contemporary queer sensibilities attuned to a defiant non normativity. Not only sexually queer, Genet was also a criminal and a social pariah, a bitter opponent of the police state, and an ally of revolutionary anticolonial movements. In Disturbing Attachments, Kadji Amin challenges the idealization of Genet as a paradigmatic figure