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French Political Travel Writing in the Interwar Years - Radical Departures (Hardcover)
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French Political Travel Writing in the Interwar Years - Radical Departures (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Research in Travel Writing
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This book studies travel writing produced by French authors between
the two World Wars following visits to authoritarian regimes in
Europe and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR). It sheds
new light on the phenomenon of French political travel in this
period by considering the well-documented appeal of Soviet
communism for French intellectuals alongside their interest in
other radical regimes which have been much less studied: fascist
Italy, the Iberian dictatorships and Nazi Germany. Through analyses
of the travel writing produced as a result of such visits, the book
gauges the appeal of these forms of authoritarianism for inter-war
French intellectuals from a broad political spectrum. It examines
not only those whose political sympathies with the extreme right or
extreme left were already publicly known, but also non-aligned
intellectuals who were interested in political models that offered
an apparently radical alternative to the French Third Republic.
This study shows how travel writing provided a space for reflection
on the lessons France might learn from the radical political
experiments of the inter-war years. It argues that such writing can
usefully be read as a form of utopian thinking, distinguishing this
from colloquial understandings of utopia as an ideal location.
Utopianism is understood neither as a fantasy ungrounded in the
real nor as a dangerously totalitarian ideal, but, in line with
Karl Mannheim, Paul Ricoeur, and Ruth Levitas, as a form of
non-congruence with the real that it seeks to transcend. The
utopianism of French political travel writing is seen to lie not in
the attempt to portray the destination visited as utopia, but
rather in the pursuit of a dialogue with radical political
alterity.
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