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Writing Marginality in Modern French Literature: From Loti to Genet

Writing Marginality in Modern French Literature: From Loti to Genet

Hardcover

Series: Cambridge Studies in French, Book 67

Literary Criticism

ISBN10: 0521642965
ISBN13: 9780521642965
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: Apr 23 2001
Pages: 222
Weight: 1.09
Height: 0.63 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
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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