Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 160 pages) |
Physical Medium |
polychrome |
Description |
text file |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 141-154) and index. |
Summary |
"The four authors treated here - Victor Segalen, Andre Malraux, Marguerite Duras, and Roland Barthes - each experienced at one point in his or her life a deep dissatisfaction with modern European values, followed by a turn toward the East. However, due to different class, gender, and personal backgrounds, they each entertained diverse and complex relationships to (post)colonial ideology, which they both served and subverted at the same time. By engaging in an "off-center" reading of these authors' Eastern texts, and by examining their ambiguous constructions of the Orient, Figuring the East challenges the facile dichotomy that postcolonial critics frequently draw between the Western colonial Self and the Eastern exotic Other."--Jacket. |
Contents |
Reading of the Asian Other -- Segalen's "Quexotic" Quest -- Other in Malraux's Humanism -- Duras on the Margins -- Another Barthes. |
Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
Subject |
French literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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French literature. |
Chronological Term |
20th century |
Subject |
Orient -- In literature.
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Draper. |
Chronological Term |
1900 - 1999 |
Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Other Form: |
Print version: Ha, Marie-Paule, 1953- Figuring the East. Albany : State University of New York Press, ©2000 079144385X (DLC) 99029215 (OCoLC)41266172 |
ISBN |
0585300488 (electronic book) |
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9780585300481 (electronic book) |
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