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Author Barnes, Leslie, 1976- author.

Title Vietnam and the colonial condition of French literature / Leslie Barnes.

Publication Info. Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, 2014.

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Summary "Vietnam and the Colonial Condition of French Literature explores an aspect of modern French literature that has been consistently overlooked in literary histories: the relationship between the colonies--their cultures, languages, and people--and formal shifts in French literary production. Starting from the premise that neither cultural identity nor cultural production can be pure or homogenous, Leslie Barnes initiates a new discourse on the French literary canon by examining the work of three iconic French writers with personal connections to Vietnam: André Malraux, Marguerite Duras, and Linda Lê. In a thorough investigation of the authors' linguistic, metaphysical, and textual experiences of colonialism, Barnes articulates a new way of reading French literature: not as an inward-looking, homogenous, monolingual tradition, but rather as a tradition of intersecting and interdependent peoples, cultures, and experiences. One of the few books to focus on Vietnam's position within francophone literary scholarship, Barnes challenges traditional concepts of French cultural identity and offers a new perspective on canonicity and the division between "French" and "francophone" literature."-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents pt. ONE Andre' Malraux between the Exotic and the Existential -- 1. Malraux's La Tentation de L'Occident: Exoticism and the Crisis of the West -- 2. The Metaphysical Adventurer: The Indochinese Novel and Malraux's Asian Trilogy -- pt. TWO The Politics and Poetics of Marguerite Duras's Metissage -- 3."C'Est beaucoup cela, mon style": Reading Vietnamese in Duras's Autobiographical Returns -- pt. THREE Linda Le and the Expression of Universal Pain -- 4. Trauma and Plasticity: Le's Metaliterary Project -- 5. Toward a "Litterature deplacee": The Aesthetics of Exile in Le's Nonfiction.
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Subject Malraux, André, 1901-1976 -- Criticism and interpretation.
Malraux, André, 1901-1976.
Criticism and interpretation.
Duras, Marguerite -- Criticism and interpretation.
Duras, Marguerite.
Lê, Linda -- Criticism and interpretation.
Lê, Linda.
French literature -- Vietnamese influences.
French literature.
Cultural fusion.
Cultural fusion.
National characteristics, French, in literature.
National characteristics, French, in literature.
Vietnamese literature (French) -- History and criticism.
Vietnamese literature (French)
Vietnam -- In literature.
Vietnam.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Barnes, Leslie, 1976- author. Vietnam and the colonial condition of French literature 9780803249974 (DLC) 2014025627 (OCoLC)877370424
ISBN 9780803266773 (electronic book)
0803266774 (electronic book)
9780803249974
0803249977