Exotic Subversions in Nineteenth-Century French Fiction (Legenda Research Monographs in French Studies)
Publisher: Legenda; [In association with] Modern Humanities Research Association and Maney Publishing
Published: April 30, 2008
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 124
ISBN-13: 9781905981519
Subjects: Literary studies: 19th century; Literary Criticism; Literature - Classics / Criticism; French; France; European - French; 19th century; Colonies in literature; French literature; History and criticism; Other (Philosophy) in literature
Description: "In the course of the nineteenth century, France built up a colonial empire second only to Britains. The literary tradition in which it dealt with its colonial 'Other' is frequently understood in terms of Edward Said's description of Orientalism as both a Western projection and a 'will to govern' over the Orient. There is, however, a body of works that eludes such a simple categorisation, offering glimpses of colonial resistance, of a critique of imperialist hegemony, or of a blurring of the boundaries between the Self and the Other. Some of the ways in which the imperialist enterprise is subverted in the metropolitan literature of this period are examined in this volume through detailed case studies of key works by Chateaubriand, Hugo, Flaubert and Segalen."--Jacket.