Writing Marginality in Modern French Literature: From Loti to Genet (Cambridge Studies in French, Series Number 67)

Hughes, Edward J.

ISBN 10: 0521642965 / ISBN 13: 9780521642965

Published by Cambridge University Press, 2001

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Writing Marginality in Modern French Literature: From Loti to Genet (Cambridge Studies in French, Series Number 67)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication Date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0521642965
• ISBN 13: 9780521642965
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Good

About this title

Synopsis

Hughes explores how cultural centers require the peripheral, the outlawed, and the deviant in order to define and bolster themselves. He analyzes the hierarchies of cultural value that inform the work of six modern French writers: the exoticist Pierre Loti; Paul Gauguin, whose Noa Noa enacts European fantasies about Polynesia; Proust, who analyzes 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.

About the Author

Edward J. Hughes is Reader in modern French literature at Royal Holloway College at the University of London.