Winner of the MLA's Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for an Outstanding Translation of a Literary Work (2008) Victor Segalen has come to be widely recognized in recent years as one of the luminaries of French modernism. Trained as a surgeon and Chinese interpreter, he wrote prolifically in a variety of genres. With this highly original collection of prose poems in French and Chinese, Segalen invented a new genre--the "stele-poem"--in imitation of the tall stone tablets with formal inscriptions that he saw in China. His wry persona declaims these inscriptions like an emperor...
Winner of the MLA's Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for an Outstanding Translation of a Literary Work (2008) Victor Segalen has come to be ...
The "Other"--source of fear and fascination; emblem of difference demonized and romanticized. Theories of alterity and cultural diversity abound in the contemporary academic landscape. Victor Segalen's early attempt to theorize the exotic is a crucial reference point for all discussions of alterity, diversity, and ethnicity. Written over the course of fourteen years between 1904 and 1918, at the height of the age of imperialism, "Essay on Exoticism" encompasses Segalen's attempts to define "true Exoticism." This concept, he hoped, would not only replace nineteenth-century notions of...
The "Other"--source of fear and fascination; emblem of difference demonized and romanticized. Theories of alterity and cultural diversity abound in th...
The "Other"--source of fear and fascination; emblem of difference demonized and romanticized. Theories of alterity and cultural diversity abound in the contemporary academic landscape. Victor Segalen's early attempt to theorize the exotic is a crucial reference point for all discussions of alterity, diversity, and ethnicity. Written over the course of fourteen years between 1904 and 1918, at the height of the age of imperialism, "Essay on Exoticism" encompasses Segalen's attempts to define "true Exoticism." This concept, he hoped, would not only replace nineteenth-century notions of...
The "Other"--source of fear and fascination; emblem of difference demonized and romanticized. Theories of alterity and cultural diversity abound in th...
Terii veut devenir un pretre-conteur, le must dans la hierarchie maorie. Il est obligatoire de connaitre les lignees de dieux et les reciter toutes sans erreur afin de gagner prestige et reconnaissance. Helas, le heros oublie et comble de malchance son erreur est accompagnee d'une nouvelle revolutionnaire: des etrangers arrivent... Ce roman se presente surtout comme le contre-pied absolu d'un certain mythe tahitien . Ce qu'exalte Segalen, ce n'est pas l'idylle suave avec la nature, mais une societe paienne, guerriere, habile au plaisir comme a la cruaute: ... ni Loti, ni Saint-Pol Roux, ni...
Terii veut devenir un pretre-conteur, le must dans la hierarchie maorie. Il est obligatoire de connaitre les lignees de dieux et les reciter toutes sa...
Ce roman est bati comme un journal intime. Il debute le 30 mars 1911 et s'acheve le 22 novembre de la meme annee. L'action se deroule en Chine dans les derniers mois de la dynastie Qing. Le narrateur, en poste a Pekin, recrute un professeur de mandchou, Rene Leys, fils d'un epicier belge, qui s'avere un bien curieux personnage: il pretend avoir ses entrees au sein de la Cite interdite. Est-il si proche du pouvoir qu'il le laisse croire ?... - Le roman baigne dans une atmosphere mysterieuse."
Ce roman est bati comme un journal intime. Il debute le 30 mars 1911 et s'acheve le 22 novembre de la meme annee. L'action se deroule en Chine dans le...