{"product_id":"egalitarian-strangeness-edward-j-hughes-9781802075311","title":"Egalitarian Strangeness: On Class Disturbance and Levelling in Modern and Contemporary French Narrative","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe formulation 'egalitarian strangeness' is a direct borrowing from \u003ci\u003eCourts voyages au pays du peuple\u003c\/i\u003e [Short Voyages to the Land of the People] (1990), a collection of essays by the contemporary French thinker Jacques Ranci?re. Perhaps best known for his theory of radical equality as set out in \u003ci\u003eLe Ma?tre ignorant\u003c\/i\u003e [The Ignorant Schoolmaster] (1987), Ranci?re reflects on ways in which a hierarchical social order based on inequality can come to be unsettled. In the democracy of literature, for example, he argues that words and sentences serve to capture any life and to make it available to any reader. The present book explores embedded forms of social and cultural 'apportionment' in a range of modern and contemporary French texts (including prose fiction, socially engaged commentary, and autobiography), while also identifying scenes of class disturbance and egalitarian encounter. Part One considers the 'refrain of class' audible in works by Claude Simon, Charles P?guy, Marie Ndiaye, Thierry Beinstingel, and Gabriel Gauny and examines how these authors' practices of language connect with that refrain. In Part Two, Hughes analyses forms of domination and \u003ci\u003edressage \u003c\/i\u003ewith reference to Simone Weil's mid-1930s factory journal, Paul Nizan's novel of class alienation \u003ci\u003eAntoine Bloy? \u003c\/i\u003efrom the same decade, and Pierre Michon's \u003ci\u003eVies minuscules\u003c\/i\u003e [Small Lives] (1984) with its focus on obscure rural lives. The reflection on how these narratives draw into contiguity antagonistic identities is extended in Part Three, where individual chapters on Proust and the contemporary authors Fran?ois Bon and Didier Eribon demonstrate ways in which enduring forms of cultural distribution are both consolidated and contested.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Edward J. Hughes\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1802075313\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781802075311\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Liverpool University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/02\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 344\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.06lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.72d","brand":"Edward J. Hughes","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46233144525055,"sku":"9781802075311","price":49.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_91785793-8417-4130-9723-a1981c452d56.jpg?v=1728992193","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/egalitarian-strangeness-edward-j-hughes-9781802075311","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}