Writing marginality in modern French literature : from Loti to Genet / Edward J. Hughes.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hughes, Edward J. (Edward Joseph), 1953- author.

Series:

Cambridge studies in French ; 67.

Cambridge studies in French ; 67

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

French literature--19th century--History and criticism.

French literature.

French literature--20th century--History and criticism.

Marginality, Social, in literature.

Literature and society--France--History--19th century.

Literature and society.

Literature and society--France--History--20th century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 209 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2001.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Writing Marginality in Modern French Literature, first published in 2001, 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, who was typecast as France's moral pariah, in charting Palestinian statelessness in his last work, Un Captif amoureux (1986), reflects ethically on the dispossession of the Other and the violence inherent in the West's marginalization of cultural difference.

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.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references (p. 189-195) and index.

ISBN:

1-107-11654-6

0-511-05185-9

0-511-48581-6

9786610153756

0-511-15599-9

0-511-32900-8

0-511-11743-4

0-521-64296-5

1-280-15375-X

OCLC:

475916290