Writing Marginality in Modern French Literature: From Loti to Genet (Cambridge Studies in French) Book + PRICE WATCH * Amazon pricing is not included in price watch

Writing Marginality in Modern French Literature: From Loti to Genet (Cambridge Studies in French) Book

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 detachment from the cultures of both metropolitan France and Algeria; and Jean Genet.Read More

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  • 0521642965
  • 9780521642965
  • Edward J. Hughes
  • 23 April 2001
  • Cambridge University Press
  • Hardcover (Book)
  • 222
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