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In this book, Jennifer Yee examines the ways in which the
imperialist enterprise is subverted in the French
nineteenth-century exotic literature through detailed case studies
of key works by Chateaubriand, Hugo, Flaubert and Segalen.
In the course of the nineteenth century France built up a colonial
empire second only to Britains. The literary tradition in which it
dealt with its colonial 'Other' is frequently understood in terms
of Edward Said's description of Orientalism as both a Western
projection and a 'will to govern' over the Orient. There is,
however, a body of works that eludes such a simple categorisation,
offering glimpses of colonial resistance, of a critique of
imperialist hegemony, or of a blurring of the boundaries between
the Self and the Other. Some of the ways in which the imperialist
enterprise is subverted in the metropolitan literature of this
period are examined in this volume through detailed case studies of
key works by Chateaubriand, Hugo, Flaubert and Segalen.
Decadence is seldom looked at in the context of colonialism, and
yet its heyday in the 1880s and 1890s is directly contemporary with
the expansion of France's modern colonial empire. Ever a slippery
signifier, Decadence figures alternately as pro-colonial,
anticolonial and apolitical. This edited volume gives a sense of
the sheer range and diversity of intersections between colonialism
and Decadence, from anticolonial anarchist writers to colonial
discourse, from nineteenth-century women writers to our
contemporary, Michel Houellebecq. Different chapters explore these
intersections in the cultural imagination of dance, the novel,
travel writing, historiographical theory, and literary networks.
Decadence is often seen as an essentially metropolitan, urban
movement, but this study identifies key spaces elsewhere, from
fin-de-siecle Saigon to India in the heyday of French colonialism,
from Byzantium to ancient Persia. Although the colonies were held
up by some as an antidote to the threat of French decline, other
writings reveal anxiety that the antidote might itself be a form of
poison. Colonial contact might exacerbate degeneration, whether
through cultural mixing or through the violence of colonial
aggression itself. A profound anxiety about French identity and
France's so-called mission civilisatrice is played out through the
imagery, the style and the pose of Decadence.
Evolution in economy, technology and social institutions over time
have given rise to boundaryless and Protean careers that
promote mobility and self-direction in managing
one’s career. This has led to the phenomenon of career
change whereby individuals undertake a shift from one field
of work to a completely different field of work. In career change
research, career changers have been studied as a collective,
singular group undergoing a similar change experience, which
neglects individual differences that may contrast the experience of
change from one changer to another. Furthermore, the
emotional experience that accompanies a career change has
been examined with a primary focus on the role of positive
emotions, which overlooks the role of negative emotions in
career change. Thus, this book sheds light on three key
narratives of career change; Rejectors, Navigators and Seekers,
that were identified in a phenomenological study of career
change amongst Malaysian working adults. Semi-structured
interviews were conducted with 30 career changers across age,
gender and ethnicity with a focus on how they made sense and
meaning of their lived experience of career change within
their environment and context. Each career change narrative was
found to have different characteristics, motivations and
behaviors respectively, which shaped their unique career
change process. Negative emotions were also revealed as key drivers
of the career change process, although each narrative
expressed different types of negative emotions.Finally, the book
also introduces an adaptive perspective to career development by
way of the Adaptive Career Construal Model (ACCM) which was
proposed based on the continuous bi-directional relationship
between career decisions and career outcomes.
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