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Vietnam and the Colonial Condition of French Literature offers an important and innovative perspective on the role of Vietnamese language and culture in metropolitan French literary production."—
L'Esprit Créateur“Barnes raises a crucial question at this juncture in francophone literary research, a question whose implications for future research far exceed the sole bounds of French literature, although she poses it in that domain: What impact did intercultural colonial contact have on the development of French culture?”—Jane Bradley Winston, author of Postcolonial Duras: Cultural Memory in Postwar France
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments
Introduction Part 1: Intersections: Andre Malraux Between the Exotic and the Existential1. Andre Malraux's
Tentation de L'Occident: Exoticism and the Crisis of the West2. The Metaphysical Adventurer: The Indochinese Novel and Malraux's Asian Trilogy
Part 2: Dissections: The Politics and Poetics of Marguerite Duras's
Metissage3. "C'est beaucoup cela, mon style": Reading Vietnamese in Marguerite Duras's Autobiographical Returns
Part 3: Vivisections: Lina Lê and the Expression of Universal Pain4. Trauma and Plasticity in Lina Lê's Metaliterary Project5. Toward a "Littérature déplacée": The Aesthetics of Exile in Lê's Nonfiction ConclusionNotes
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