Vietnam and the colonial condition of French literature

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Vietnam and the colonial condition of French literature

Leslie Barnes

University of Nebraska Press, c2014

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 269-288) and index

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内容説明

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: Andre Malraux, Marguerite Duras, and Linda Le. 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.

目次

Acknowledgments Introduction Part 1: Intersections: Andre Malraux Between the Exotic and the Existential1. Andre Malraux's Tentation de L'Occident: Exoticism and the Crisis of the West2. The Metaphysical Adventurer: The Indochinese Novel and Malraux's Asian Trilogy Part 2: Dissections: The Politics and Poetics of Marguerite Duras's Metissage3. "C'est beaucoup cela, mon style": Reading Vietnamese in Marguerite Duras's Autobiographical Returns Part 3: Vivisections: Lina Le and the Expression of Universal Pain4. Trauma and Plasticity in Lina Le's Metaliterary Project5. Toward a "Litterature deplacee": The Aesthetics of Exile in Le's Nonfiction ConclusionNotes Bibliography Index

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