Vietnam and the Colonial Condition of French Literature

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ID19930296
AuthorsLeslie Barnes (corresponding author)
Year2014
Publication date2014-12-01
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueVietnam and the Colonial Condition of French Literature (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherUNP - Nebraska (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.2307/j.ctt1d9nmhh
OpenAlexW363644799
Open LibraryOL49523021M
ISBN9780803266773
LanguageEN
Citations received6
References cited12

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

Archaeology · Colonialism · Caribbean and African Literature and Culture · Historical Studies and Socio-cultural Analysis · History · Vietnamese History and Culture Studies · 1901-1976 · 1914-1996 · 20th century · Asian · Criticism and interpretation · Cultural fusion · Duras, marguerite · European · french · French literature · French literature, history and criticism · History and criticism · in literature · Literary Criticism · Malraux, andre · marguerite Duras (1914-1996) · National characteristics · National characteristics in literature · Vietnamese literature · Vietnamese literature (French) · Vietnamese literature, history and criticism

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