Hughes explores how cultural centers require the peripheral, the outlawed, and the deviant in order to define and bolster themselves. He analyzes the hierarchies of cultural value that inform the work of six modern French writers: the exoticist Pierre Loti; Paul Gauguin, whose Noa Noa enacts European fantasies about Polynesia; Proust, who analyzes such exemplary figures of exclusion and inclusion as the homosexual and the xenophobe; Montherlant; Camus, who pleads an alienating detachment from the cultures of both metropolitan France and Algeria; and Jean Genet.
Author(s): Edward J. Hughes
Series: Cambridge Studies in French
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Year: 2001
Language: English
Pages: 222
Cover......Page 1
Half-title......Page 3
Series-title......Page 5
Title......Page 7
Copyright......Page 8
Contents......Page 9
Acknowledgements......Page 11
Abbreviations......Page 13
Introduction......Page 15
Without obligation: exotic appropriation in Loti and Gauguin......Page 23
BETWEEN DISAFFECTION AND DENIGRATION: THE CASE OF PIERRE LOTI......Page 26
'IL N' Y A D' URGENT QUE LE DÉCOR'......Page 29
A COMMODIFIED EXOTIC......Page 33
AN AMBIGUOUS AFROPHOBIA......Page 36
A EUROPEAN PALIMPSEST: MOERENHOUT'S MESSAGE......Page 39
' … TERRIBLE DÉMANGEAISON D' INCONNU'......Page 42
PRIMITIVIST SELF-PROJECTION......Page 44
ANDROGYNY AND DISSIDENCE......Page 47
A FALTERING MIGRATION......Page 51
MIRAGES OF DESIRE......Page 55
THE MAPPING OF HOMOSEXUALITY......Page 57
WHERE VICE MEETS VIRTUE: JUPIEN'S BROTHEL......Page 66
THE PLACE OF XENOPHOBIA......Page 70
COUNTER-SITES......Page 81
POLITICAL LOYALISM AND THE 'MISSION CIVILISATRICE'......Page 85
'LYAUTEY L' AFRICAIN' AND THE LEGACY OF MILITARISM......Page 87
THE COLONIAL EXHIBITION OF 1931......Page 89
ULTERIOR MOTIVES: COLONIALISM'S 'ARRIÈRE-PENSÉES'......Page 92
'CETTE BRUTE, C'EST MOI' : BECOMING THE OTHER......Page 99
CONTAINING DIFFERENCE......Page 104
'LE RÉVE COLONIAL' AND THE CULT OF WHIM......Page 108
THE OTHER WITHIN: THE CANNIBALISM OF 'LA PATRIE'......Page 112
Camus and the resistance to history......Page 116
THE BURDEN OF A CULTURAL LEGACY......Page 117
IN DENIAL OF HISTORY: 'ANONYMAT GÉOLOGIQUE'......Page 120
LE RENÉGAT OU UN ESPRIT CONFUS: CAMUS'S 'CONSTELLATION OF DELIRIUM'......Page 124
ON EUROPE'S EDGE......Page 131
THE CARCERAL SOCIETY......Page 132
THE SETTLER'S TABLE: LE PREMIER HOMME......Page 135
EDUCATION AND CULTURAL MEMORY......Page 138
BIBLICAL MYTHS, ARCHAIC TIMES......Page 141
UTOPIAN SOLUTIONS......Page 143
REQUIRING THE MARGINS......Page 149
ALPHABETS AND THE INSCRIPTION OF POWER......Page 152
LIBERATION POLITICS, SEXUAL LIBERATION......Page 155
APPROPRIATION AND EMPATHY......Page 158
GENET THE JANISSARY......Page 159
VOICES AND BODIES: STYLES OF CULTURAL VENTRILOQUISM......Page 163
LANGUAGE AND AUTHORITY......Page 168
STAGES OF IDENTITY......Page 169
RELOCATING THE CIVILIZED......Page 172
PIETY AND PROVOCATION......Page 174
Conclusion......Page 180
1 WITHOUT OBLIGATION: EXOTIC APPROPRIATION IN LOTI AND GAUGUIN......Page 185
2 EXEMPLARY INCLUSIONS, INDECENT EXCLUSIONS IN PROUST'S RECHERCHE......Page 190
3 CLAIMING CULTURAL DISSIDENCE: THE CASE OF MONTHERLANT'S LA ROSE DE SABLE......Page 193
4 CAMUS AND THE RESISTANCE TO HISTORY......Page 196
CONCLUSION......Page 202
SECONDARY MATERIAL: BOOKS AND ARTICLES......Page 203
Index......Page 210
