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Figuring the East
Marie-Paule Ha
其他書名
Segalen, Malraux, Duras, and Barthes
出版
SUNY Press
, 2000-01-01
主題
Literary Criticism / European / French
Biography & Autobiography / Political
ISBN
0791443868
9780791443866
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=14Y_UNnImqEC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋
The four authors treated here--Victor Segalen, André 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.