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Writing Marginality in Modern French Literature: From Loti to Genet

By Edward J. Hughes

Book information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2001
ISBN
0521642965, 9780521642965, 9780511015946, 0511015941
LCC
PQ295.M37 H84 2001
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
753 kB (771556 bytes)
Series
Cambridge Studies in French
Pages
222\222
Topic
Education
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

Hughes explores how cultural centers require the peripheral, the outlawed, and the deviant in order to define and bolster themselves. He analyzes the hierarchies of cultural value that inform the work of six modern French writers: the exoticist Pierre Loti; Paul Gauguin, whose Noa Noa enacts European fantasies about Polynesia; Proust, who analyzes such exemplary figures of exclusion and inclusion as the homosexual and the xenophobe; Montherlant; Camus, who pleads an alienating detachment from the cultures of both metropolitan France and Algeria; and Jean Genet.

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