Victor Segalen and the Aesthetics of Diversity
Journeys between Cultures
Seiten
2000
Oxford University Press (Verlag)
978-0-19-816014-4 (ISBN)
Oxford University Press (Verlag)
978-0-19-816014-4 (ISBN)
Victor Segalen (1878-1919) is one of the leading 20th-century critics of exoticism. Rejecting the colonial literature of his time, he sought new means of approaching non-Western cultures. This study introduces Segalen for those interested in a variety of fields (travel writing, literary criticism, post-colonial criticism, anthropology).
From his premature death in 1919 until the final decades of the twentieth century, the French traveller, author, and naval doctor Victor Segalen remained relatively obscure, his extensive work on exoticism largely unavailable. With the appearance of the Complete Works in 1995, the dramatic scope and wide-ranging implications of his reflections on diversity were at last fully apparent. Segalen's understanding of the exotic is radically different from that of his colonial contemporaries. His exoticism - or Aesthetics of Diversity - focuses on the instability of contact between different cultures and represents a unique response to the decline of diversity triggered by colonialism and Westernization. Recent attention to Segalen in a variety of fields - post-modern sociology, post-colonialism, literary criticism, anthropology - indicates his role as a precursory theorist of the exotic whose work is of increasing
contemporary relevance. At a moment when exoticism is rapidly emerging as a term of critical currency, this study of the genesis of Segalen's aesthetics is a timely contribution to work in this area.
From his premature death in 1919 until the final decades of the twentieth century, the French traveller, author, and naval doctor Victor Segalen remained relatively obscure, his extensive work on exoticism largely unavailable. With the appearance of the Complete Works in 1995, the dramatic scope and wide-ranging implications of his reflections on diversity were at last fully apparent. Segalen's understanding of the exotic is radically different from that of his colonial contemporaries. His exoticism - or Aesthetics of Diversity - focuses on the instability of contact between different cultures and represents a unique response to the decline of diversity triggered by colonialism and Westernization. Recent attention to Segalen in a variety of fields - post-modern sociology, post-colonialism, literary criticism, anthropology - indicates his role as a precursory theorist of the exotic whose work is of increasing
contemporary relevance. At a moment when exoticism is rapidly emerging as a term of critical currency, this study of the genesis of Segalen's aesthetics is a timely contribution to work in this area.
Charles Forsdick is Lecturer in French, University of Glasgow
LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS ; INTRODUCTION: VICTOR SEGALEN AND THE AESTHETICS OF DIVERSITY ; 1. Defining the Exotic: Exotcism as an Approach to Radical Diversity ; 2. Exoticism and Empire: Colonial Literature and Post-Colonial Critique ; 3. Polynesia and Difference ; 4. China and Alterity ; 5. Towards a New Practice of Exoticism ; CONCLUSION ; SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY ; INDEX
Erscheint lt. Verlag | 1.12.2000 |
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Verlagsort | Oxford |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 145 x 225 mm |
Gewicht | 441 g |
Themenwelt | Reisen ► Reiseberichte |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie | |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik | |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
ISBN-10 | 0-19-816014-3 / 0198160143 |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-19-816014-4 / 9780198160144 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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