Synopses & Reviews
Hughes explores how cultural centres require the peripheral, and the deviant to define themselves.
About the Author
Edward J. Hughes is Reader in modern French literature at Royal Holloway College at the University of London.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Introduction; 1. Without obligation: exotic appropriation in Loti and Gauguin; 2. Exemplary inclusions, indecent exclusions in Proust's Recherche; 3. Claiming cultural dissidence: the case of Montherlant's La Rose de sable; 4. Camus and the resistance to history; 5. Peripheries, public and private: Genet and dispossession; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index.