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Exotic Subversions in Nineteenth-century French Fiction
Copyright Year 2008
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In this book, Jennifer Yee examines the ways in which the imperialist enterprise is subverted in the French nineteenth-century exotic literature through detailed case studies of key works by Chateaubriand, Hugo, Flaubert and Segalen.
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Introduction 1. Shifting Ideologies in Chateaubriand's Epic Les Natchez 2. Victor Hugo and the Other as Divided Self in Bug-Jargal 3. Flaubert's Salammbô and the Subversion of Meaning 4. Exotic Polyphony: Victor Segalen and Les Immémoriaux 5. Conclusion
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Jennifer Yee