Figuring the East - Segalen, Malraux, Duras, and Barthes (Paperback)

The four authors treated here -- Victor Segalen, Andre 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.

General

Imprint:	State University of New York Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	December 1999
First published:	March 2000
Authors:	Marie-Paule Ha
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 25mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	160
ISBN-13:	978-0-7914-4386-6
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > General
LSN:	0-7914-4386-8
Barcode:	9780791443866

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