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Writing marginality in modern French literature : from Loti to Genet /
"Writing Marginality in Modern French Literature explores how cultural centres require the peripheral, the outlawed, and the deviant in order to define and bolster themselves. It analyses the hierarchies of cultural value which inform the work of six modern French writers: the exoticist Pierre...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge ; New York, NY :
Cambridge University Press,
2001.
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| Colección: | Cambridge studies in French.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | "Writing Marginality in Modern French Literature explores how cultural centres require the peripheral, the outlawed, and the deviant in order to define and bolster themselves. It analyses the hierarchies of cultural value which inform the work of six modern French writers: the exoticist Pierre Loti; Paul Gauguin, whose Noa Noa enacts European fantasies about Polynesia; Proust, who analyses such exemplary figures of exclusion and inclusion as the homosexual and the xenophobe; Montherlant, who claims to subvert colonialist values in La Rose de sable; Camus, who pleads an alienating detachment from the cultures of both metropolitan France and Algeria; and Jean Genet. Crucially Genet, typecast as France's moral pariah, charts Palestinian statelessness in his last work, Un captif amoureux (1986), and reflects ethically on the dispossession of the Other and the violence inherent in the West's marginalization of cultural difference."--Jacket |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xii, 209 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 189-195) and index. |
| ISBN: | 0511015941 9780511015946 0521642965 9780521642965 0511117434 9780511117435 9780511485817 0511485816 9780511051852 0511051859 0511155999 9780511155994 128015375X 9781280153754 1107116546 9781107116542 9786610153756 6610153752 0511329008 9780511329005 9780521025782 0521025788 |