Vietnam and the Colonial Condition of French Literature (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780803249974)

Vietnam and the Colonial Condition of French Literature explores an aspect of modern French literature that has been consistently overlooked in literary histories: the relationship between the colonies--their cultures, languages, and people--and formal shifts in French literary production. Starting from the premise that neither cultural identity nor cultural production can be
pure or homogenous, Leslie Barnes initiates a new discourse on the French literary canon by examining the work of three iconic French writers with personal connections to Vietnam: Andr Malraux, Marguerite Duras, and Linda L .
In a thorough investigation of the authors' linguistic, metaphysical, and textual experiences of colonialism, Barnes articulates a new way of reading French literature: not as an inward-looking, homogenous, monolingual tradition, but rather as a tradition of intersecting and interdependent peoples, cultures, and experiences.
One of the few books to focus on Vietnam's position within francophone literary scholarship, Barnes challenges traditional concepts of French cultural identity and offers a new perspective on canonicity and the division between "French" and "francophone" literature.

Author: Leslie Barnes
ISBN-10: 0803249977
ISBN-13: 9780803249974
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Language: English
Published: 12/01/2014
Pages: 312
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.19lbs
Size: 8.82h x 5.66w x 1.05d