Book contents
- Literature, Ethics, and Decolonization in Postwar France
- Literature, Ethics, and Decolonization in Postwar France
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Note on translations
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 Neutral writing and Roland Barthes's theory of exhausted literature
- Chapter 2 Maurice Blanchot and the politics of narrative genres
- Chapter 3 Literary weakness
- Chapter 4 The poverty of history and memory
- Chapter 5 Albert Camus and the politics of shame
- Chapter 6 Marguerite Duras, war traumas, and the dilemmas of literary representation
- Chapter 7 Literary void
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
Chapter 2 - Maurice Blanchot and the politics of narrative genres
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 February 2015
- Literature, Ethics, and Decolonization in Postwar France
- Literature, Ethics, and Decolonization in Postwar France
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Note on translations
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 Neutral writing and Roland Barthes's theory of exhausted literature
- Chapter 2 Maurice Blanchot and the politics of narrative genres
- Chapter 3 Literary weakness
- Chapter 4 The poverty of history and memory
- Chapter 5 Albert Camus and the politics of shame
- Chapter 6 Marguerite Duras, war traumas, and the dilemmas of literary representation
- Chapter 7 Literary void
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
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- Literature, Ethics, and Decolonization in Postwar FranceThe Politics of Disengagement, pp. 45 - 59Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2015