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Exotic Subversions in Nineteenth-Century French Fiction - 9781905981519

Un libro in lingua di Jennifer Yee edito da Legenda, 2008

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Yee (French, U. of Oxford) looks beyond Said's observations about the Other in the empirical relationship and the need of the empire to control, and finds within the literature of the empire of France (whether conducted under monarchy or democracy) significant evidence of emotional and political tensions. She chooses unusual cases, such as Chateaubriand's Les Natchez to illustrate the shift from Enlightenment enthusiasm for the natural life of the indigenous to jealousy, pity, and disdain, and explores the subversion of meaning in Flaubert's Salammbo and the polyphony of the exotic in Segalen's Les Immémoriaux. In a very fine chapter, she examines Hugo's little known masterpiece Bug-Jargal and builds a case for the Other as the divided self. Distributed in North America by The David Brown Book Co. Annotation ©2008 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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