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100	1		_aJust, Daniel _d(1974-....) _eAuteur _4070 _9399769
245	1	0	_aLiterature, ethics, and decolonization in postwar France _h[Texte imprimé] : _bthe politics of disengagement / _cDaniel Just
260			_aCambridge : _bCambridge University Press, _c2015
300			_a1 vol. (IX-217 p.) ; _c24 cm
520			_a"Against the background of intellectual and political debates in France during the 1950s and 1960s, Daniel Just examines literary narratives and works of literary criticism arguing that these texts are more politically engaged than they may initially appear. As writings by Roland Barthes, Maurice Blanchot, Albert Camus, and Marguerite Duras show, seemingly disengaged literary principles - such as blankness, minimalism, silence, and indeterminateness - can be deployed to a number of potent political and ethical ends. At the time the main focus of this activism was the escalation of violence in colonial Algeria. The poetics formulated by these writers suggests that blankness, weakness, and withdrawal from action are not symptoms of impotence and political escapism in the face of historical events, but deliberate literary strategies aimed to neutralize the drive to dominate others that characterized the colonial project"-- _cProvided by publisher
504			_aBibliogr. p. 198-211
505	8		_aMachine generated contents note: 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
653			_aFrench literature / 20th century / History and criticism
653			_aPolitics and literature / France / History / 20th century
653			_aEthics in literature
653			_aDecolonization in literature
653			_aLITERARY CRITICISM / European / General
774	0		_aJust, Daniel _tThe poverty of history and memory : _bAlbert Camus's Algeria _wa665004
774	0		_aJust, Daniel _tAlbert Camus and the politics of shame _wa665014
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