Figuring the East :
Ha, Marie-Paule, 1953-
Figuring the East : Segalen, Malraux, Duras, and Barthes / Marie-Paule Ha. - Albany : State University of New York Press, �2000. - 1 online resource (xiv, 160 pages)
Includes bibliographical references (pages 141-154) and index.
Reading of the Asian Other -- Segalen's "Quexotic" Quest -- The Other in Malraux's Humanism -- Duras on the Margins -- Another Barthes.
"The four authors treated here - Victor Segalen, Andre Malraux, Marguerite Duras, and Roland Barthes - each experienced at one point in his or her life a deep dissatisfaction with modern European values, followed by a turn toward the East. However, due to different class, gender, and personal backgrounds, they each entertained diverse and complex relationships to (post)colonial ideology, which they both served and subverted at the same time. By engaging in an "off-center" reading of these authors' Eastern texts, and by examining their ambiguous constructions of the Orient, Figuring the East challenges the facile dichotomy that postcolonial critics frequently draw between the Western colonial Self and the Eastern exotic Other."--Jacket.
0585300488 9780585300481
99029215
1900-1999
French literature--History and criticism.--20th century
LITERARY CRITICISM--European--French.
French literature.
Literature.
Orient--In literature.
Asia--Orient.
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
PQ305 / .H25 2000eb
840.9/325
Figuring the East : Segalen, Malraux, Duras, and Barthes / Marie-Paule Ha. - Albany : State University of New York Press, �2000. - 1 online resource (xiv, 160 pages)
Includes bibliographical references (pages 141-154) and index.
Reading of the Asian Other -- Segalen's "Quexotic" Quest -- The Other in Malraux's Humanism -- Duras on the Margins -- Another Barthes.
"The four authors treated here - Victor Segalen, Andre Malraux, Marguerite Duras, and Roland Barthes - each experienced at one point in his or her life a deep dissatisfaction with modern European values, followed by a turn toward the East. However, due to different class, gender, and personal backgrounds, they each entertained diverse and complex relationships to (post)colonial ideology, which they both served and subverted at the same time. By engaging in an "off-center" reading of these authors' Eastern texts, and by examining their ambiguous constructions of the Orient, Figuring the East challenges the facile dichotomy that postcolonial critics frequently draw between the Western colonial Self and the Eastern exotic Other."--Jacket.
0585300488 9780585300481
99029215
1900-1999
French literature--History and criticism.--20th century
LITERARY CRITICISM--European--French.
French literature.
Literature.
Orient--In literature.
Asia--Orient.
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
PQ305 / .H25 2000eb
840.9/325