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Author Barnes, Leslie, 1976- author.

Title Vietnam and the colonial condition of French literature / Leslie Barnes
Published Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, 2014

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Contents pt. ONE Andre' Malraux between the Exotic and the Existential -- 1. Malraux's La Tentation de L'Occident: Exoticism and the Crisis of the West -- 2. The Metaphysical Adventurer: The Indochinese Novel and Malraux's Asian Trilogy -- pt. TWO The Politics and Poetics of Marguerite Duras's Metissage -- 3."C'Est beaucoup cela, mon style": Reading Vietnamese in Duras's Autobiographical Returns -- pt. THREE Linda Le and the Expression of Universal Pain -- 4. Trauma and Plasticity: Le's Metaliterary Project -- 5. Toward a "Litterature deplacee": The Aesthetics of Exile in Le's Nonfiction
Summary "Vietnam and the Colonial Condition of French Literature explores an aspect of modern French literature that has been consistently overlooked in literary histories: the relationship between the colonies--their cultures, languages, and people--and formal shifts in French literary production. Starting from the premise that neither cultural identity nor cultural production can be pure or homogenous, Leslie Barnes initiates a new discourse on the French literary canon by examining the work of three iconic French writers with personal connections to Vietnam: André Malraux, Marguerite Duras, and Linda Lê. In a thorough investigation of the authors' linguistic, metaphysical, and textual experiences of colonialism, Barnes articulates a new way of reading French literature: not as an inward-looking, homogenous, monolingual tradition, but rather as a tradition of intersecting and interdependent peoples, cultures, and experiences. One of the few books to focus on Vietnam's position within francophone literary scholarship, Barnes challenges traditional concepts of French cultural identity and offers a new perspective on canonicity and the division between "French" and "francophone" literature."-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Malraux, André, 1901-1976 -- Criticism and interpretation
Duras, Marguerite -- Criticism and interpretation
Lê, Linda -- Criticism and interpretation
SUBJECT Lê, Linda -- Criticism and interpretation
Duras, Marguerite -- Criticism and interpretation
Malraux, Andre, 1901-1976 -- Criticism and interpretation
Duras, Marguerite fast
Lê, Linda fast
Malraux, André, 1901-1976 fast
Subject French literature -- Vietnamese influences
Cultural fusion.
National characteristics, French, in literature.
Vietnamese literature (French) -- History and criticism
LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- French.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- Asian -- General.
Cultural fusion
French literature
Literature
National characteristics, French, in literature
Vietnamese literature (French)
SUBJECT Vietnam -- In literature
Subject Vietnam
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780803266773
0803266774