Writing Marginality in Modern French Literature From Loti to Genet |
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Author:
| Hughes, Edward J. |
Contribution by:
| Sheringham, Michael |
Series title: | Cambridge Studies in French Ser. |
ISBN: | 978-0-521-64296-5 |
Publication Date: | Apr 2001 |
Publisher: | Cambridge University Press
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Book Format: | Hardback |
List Price: | AUD $160.95 |
Book Description:
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Hughes explores how cultural centres require the peripheral, the outlawed, and the deviant in order to define and bolster themselves. He 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; Camus, who pleads an alienating...
More DescriptionHughes explores how cultural centres require the peripheral, the outlawed, and the deviant in order to define and bolster themselves. He 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; Camus, who pleads an alienating detachment from the cultures of both metropolitan France and Algeria; and Jean Genet.