Figuring the East : Segalen, Malraux, Duras, and Barthes / Marie-Paule Ha.

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Ha, Marie-Paule, 1953-

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TextPublication details: Albany : State University of New York Press, �2000.Description: 1 online resource (xiv, 160 pages)Content type:

text

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computer

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online resource

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0585300488
9780585300481

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Figuring the East.DDC classification:

840.9/325 21

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PQ305 .H25 2000eb

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Contents:

Reading of the Asian Other -- Segalen's "Quexotic" Quest -- The Other in Malraux's Humanism -- Duras on the Margins -- Another Barthes.

Review: "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.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 141-154) and index.

"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.

Reading of the Asian Other -- Segalen's "Quexotic" Quest -- The Other in Malraux's Humanism -- Duras on the Margins -- Another Barthes.

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