{"product_id":"egalitarian-strangeness-on-class-disturbance-and-levelling-in-modern-and-contemporary-french-narrative-9781800348424","title":"Egalitarian Strangeness: On Class Disturbance and","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe formulation ‘egalitarian strangeness’ is a direct borrowing from \u003ci\u003eCourts voyages au pays du peuple\u003c\/i\u003e [Short Voyages to the Land of the People] (1990), a collection of essays by the contemporary French thinker Jacques Rancière. Perhaps best known for his theory of radical equality as set out in \u003ci\u003eLe Maître ignorant\u003c\/i\u003e [The Ignorant Schoolmaster] (1987), Rancière reflects on ways in which a hierarchical social order based on inequality can come to be unsettled. In the democracy of literature, for example, he argues that words and sentences serve to capture any life and to make it available to any reader. The present book explores embedded forms of social and cultural ‘apportionment’ in a range of modern and contemporary French texts (including prose fiction, socially engaged commentary, and autobiography), while also identifying scenes of class disturbance and egalitarian encounter. Part One considers the ‘refrain of class’ audible in works by Claude Simon, Charles Péguy, Marie Ndiaye, Thierry Beinstingel, and Gabriel Gauny and examines how these authors’ practices of language connect with that refrain. In Part Two, Hughes analyses forms of domination and \u003ci\u003edressage \u003c\/i\u003ewith reference to Simone Weil’s mid-1930s factory journal, Paul Nizan’s novel of class alienation \u003ci\u003eAntoine Bloyé \u003c\/i\u003efrom the same decade, and Pierre Michon’s \u003ci\u003eVies minuscules\u003c\/i\u003e [Small Lives] (1984) with its focus on obscure rural lives. The reflection on how these narratives draw into contiguity antagonistic identities is extended in Part Three, where individual chapters on Proust and the contemporary authors François Bon and Didier Eribon demonstrate ways in which enduring forms of cultural distribution are both consolidated and contested.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgements\u003cbr\u003eList of Illustrations\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction: By Way of Rancière\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePART I: THE REFRAIN OF CLASS\u003cbr\u003eChapter 1 Events and Sensibility in Claude Simon’s \u003ci\u003eL’Acacia\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 2 ‘Les Savoirs de la main’: Dramas of Manual Knowledge in Péguy and Beinstingel\u003cbr\u003eChapter 3 A Solitary Emancipation: Ndiaye’s \u003ci\u003eLa Cheffe, roman d’une cuisinière\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 4 The Worker Philosopher: Gauny and Self-Belonging\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePART II: DISTURBANCE AND DRESSAGE\u003cbr\u003eChapter 5 \u003ci\u003eAnimal laborans\u003c\/i\u003e: Missing Life in Paul Nizan’s \u003ci\u003eAntoine Bloyé\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 6 A Degrading Division: Hands and Minds in Simone Weil\u003cbr\u003eChapter 7 Pierre Michon, ‘Small Lives’, and the Terrain of Art\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePART III: AUDIBLE VOICES\u003cbr\u003eChapter 8 Tales of Distribution in \u003ci\u003eA la recherche du temps perdu\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 9 Convocation, or On Ways of Being Together: François Bon\u003cbr\u003eChapter 10 Circuits of Re-appropriation: Accessing the Real in the Work of Didier Eribon\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eConclusion\u003cbr\u003eBibliography\u003cbr\u003eIndex","brand":"Liverpool University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51360134529367,"sku":"9781800348424","price":109.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781800348424.jpg?v=1754126769","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/egalitarian-strangeness-on-class-disturbance-and-levelling-in-modern-and-contemporary-french-narrative-9781800348424","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}