Daniel Just

Literature, Ethics, and Decolonization in Postwar France

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Produktbeschreibung

A wide-ranging account of French literature of the 1950s and 1960s showing how politically engaged leading writers were.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 228
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Februar 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 487g
• ISBN-13: 9781107093881
• ISBN-10: 1107093880
• Artikelnr.: 41418151

Autorenporträt

Daniel Just is Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at Bilkent University, Ankara. He has published a number of articles in journals including the Modern Language Review, New Literary History, MLN, the Forum for Modern Language Studies, and Philosophy and Literature.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: literature and engagement
2. Neutral writing and Roland Barthes's theory of exhausted literature
3. Maurice Blanchot and the politics of narrative genres
4. Literary weakness: Maurice Blanchot, commitment, and decolonization
5. The poverty of history and memory: Albert Camus's Algeria
6. Albert Camus and the politics of shame
7. Marguerite Duras, war traumas, and the dilemmas of literary representation
8. Literary void: ethics and politics in Marguerite Duras's hybrid stories
9. Conclusion: the literature of exhaustion, weakness, and blankness
Bibliography.