{"product_id":"literature-ethics-and-decolonization-in-daniel-just-9781107093881","title":"Literature, Ethics, and Decolonization in Postwar France: The Politics of Disengagement","description":"Against the background of intellectual and political debates in France during the 1950s and 1960s, Daniel Just examines literary narratives and works of literary criticism arguing that these texts are more politically engaged than they may initially appear. As writings by Roland Barthes, Maurice Blanchot, Albert Camus, and Marguerite Duras show, seemingly disengaged literary principles - such as blankness, minimalism, silence, and indeterminateness - can be deployed to a number of potent political and ethical ends. At the time the main focus of this activism was the escalation of violence in colonial Algeria. The poetics formulated by these writers suggests that blankness, weakness, and withdrawal from action are not symptoms of impotence and political escapism in the face of historical events, but deliberate literary strategies aimed to neutralize the drive to dominate others that characterized the colonial project.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Daniel Just\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1107093880\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781107093881\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Cambridge University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/09\/2015\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 225\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.05lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.10h x 5.90w x 0.80d","brand":"Daniel Just","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44120805441791,"sku":"9781107093881","price":120.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_6559d2bf-ae0b-4920-b6ab-f31d8a257736.jpg?v=1687416369","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/literature-ethics-and-decolonization-in-daniel-just-9781107093881","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}