pure or homogenous, Leslie Barnes initiates a new discourse on the French literary canon by examining the work of three iconic French writers with personal connections to Vietnam: AndrŽ Malraux, Marguerite Duras, and Linda L�.
Ê In a thorough investigation of the authorsÕ linguistic, metaphysical, and textual experiences of colonialism, Barnes articulates a new way of reading French literature: not as an inward-looking, homogenous, monolingual tradition, but rather as a tradition of intersecting and interdependent peoples, cultures, and experiences.
Ê One of the few books to focus on VietnamÕs position within francophone literary scholarship, Barnes challenges traditional concepts of French cultural identity and offers a new perspective on canonicity and the division between ÒFrenchÓ and ÒfrancophoneÓ literature.
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