Victor Segalen and the Aesthetics of Diversity Journeys between Cultures,9780198160144

Victor Segalen and the Aesthetics of Diversity Journeys between Cultures

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ISBN13: 9780198160144
ISBN10: 0198160143
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2001-01-18
Publisher(s): Oxford University Press
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Summary

With the appearance of Victor Segalen's Complete Works in 1995, the dramatic scope and wide-ranging implications of his reflections on exoticism were at last fully apparent. This study asserts the originality of Segalen's notion of exoticism while offering the first comprehensive study of the genesis of his aesthetics.

Author Biography


Charles Forsdick is Lecturer in French, University of Glasgow

Table of Contents

List of Abbreviations
xi
Introduction: Victor Segalen and the Aesthetics of Diversity 1(1)
Death of an Exote: The Mythologization of Victor Segalen
2(7)
Representations of Victor Segalen
9(5)
Critical Reception: Uses and Abuses
14(9)
Defining the Exotic: Exoticism as an Approach to Radical Diversity
23(35)
New Perspectives on Exoticism
23(3)
Exoticism as an Aesthetics of Diversity
26(3)
The Field of the Exotic
29(4)
Representation and Relation: Towards a Definition of Exoticism
33(7)
Segalen and the Exoticist Tradition
40(7)
Twentieth-Century Exoticism: Threats and Responses
47(11)
Exoticism and Empire: Colonial Literature and Post-Colonial Critique
58(44)
Segalen and Empire
58(4)
In the Shadow of Empire: Victor Segalen as le Kipling francais
62(19)
In the Wake of Empire: Segalen and Post-Colonial Criticism
81(9)
Post-Colonial Segalen: New Directions in the Work of Glissant and Khatibi
90(12)
Polynesia and Difference
102(38)
Writing Differently: Segalen and la Nouvelle Cythere
103(9)
Writing Difference
112(10)
Orality and Literacy
122(10)
The Limits of Writing Difference
132(8)
China and Alterity
140(42)
Segalen and China
143(7)
Le Fils du Ciel, or the Chinese Empire Writes Back?
150(13)
Rene Leys, or the Impossibility of Writing the Exotic
163(19)
Towards a New Practice of Exoticism
182(42)
Entropy and the Decline of the Exotic
184(9)
Tourism and Travel, Tourist and Traveller
193(8)
Mapping the Exotic: Segalen and Cartography
201(10)
W(h)ither Exoticism? Autoscopy, Brittany and the Otherness of Self
211(13)
Conclusion 224(4)
Select Bibliography 228(9)
Index 237

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