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1 online resource (xii, 209 pages). |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Cambridge studies in French
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Cambridge studies in French.
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Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 189-195) and index. |
Contents |
Without obligation : exotic appropriation in Loti and Gauguin -- Exemplary inclusions, indecent exclusons in Proust's Recherche -- Claimimg cultural dissidence : the case of Montherlant's La Rose de sable -- Camus and the resistance to history -- Peripheries, public and private : Genet and dispossession. |
Summary |
"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. |
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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. |
Local Note |
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Subject |
French literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
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French literature. |
Chronological Term |
19th century |
Subject |
French literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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Chronological Term |
20th century |
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Marginality, Social, in literature.
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Marginality, Social, in literature. |
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Literature and society -- France -- History -- 19th century.
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Literature and society. |
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France. |
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History. |
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Literature and society -- France -- History -- 20th century.
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Chronological Term |
1800-1999 |
Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History.
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Other Form: |
Print version: Hughes, Edward J. (Edward Joseph), 1953- Writing marginality in modern French literature. Cambridge ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2001 0521642965 (DLC) 00063060 (OCoLC)44860847 |
ISBN |
0511015941 (electronic book) |
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9780511015946 (electronic book) |
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0521642965 |
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9780521642965 |
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0511117434 (electronic book) |
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9780511117435 (electronic book) |
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9780511485817 (electronic book) |
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0511485816 (electronic book) |
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9780511051852 (electronic book) |
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0511051859 (electronic book) |
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0511155999 |
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9780511155994 |
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128015375X |
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9781280153754 |
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