Figuring the East : Segalen, Malraux, Duras, and Barthes / Marie-Paule Ha. [electronic resource]

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ha, Marie-Paule, 1953-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

French literature.

Orient--In literature.

Orient.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiv, 160 p. )

Place of Publication:

Albany : State University of New York Press, c2000.

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

The Other in Malraux's Humanism

Duras on the Margins

Another Barthes.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 141-154) and index.

ISBN:

1-4384-0527-8

0-585-30048-8