Paralyses : Literature, Travel, and Ethnography in French Modernity.
Modernity has long been equated with motion, travel, and change, from Marx's critical diagnoses of economic instability to the Futurists' glorification of speed. Likewise, metaphors of travel serve widely in discussions of empire, cultural contact, translation, and globalization, from Dele...
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| Language: | English |
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University of Nebraska Press
2011.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- The muse of paralysis
- Horizon of conquest: Eugene Fromentin's Algerian narratives
- Slow progress: Jean Paulhan and Madagascar
- Frustration: Michel Leiris
- Atopia: Roland Barthes
- The wake of Ulysses.
