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Les Particules Élémentaires: Self–Portrait, Gerald Prince
Les Particules Élémentaires: Self–Portrait, Gerald Prince
Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature
Perhaps no French novel in the past fifteen years has received more critical attention than Michel Houellebecq’s Les Particules élémentaires and perhaps none has evoked stronger reactions with regard to the (literary) values it espouses and represents. This (self-)portrait, like any portrait, accents certain features more than others. It concentrates on refuting charges of nihilism, reactionaryism, sexism, and racism; it stresses Houellebecq’s novel’s attention to form and its thematic clarity as well as its determination to say something rather than nothing; and, through a consideration of its references to various media, arts, and texts, of its pet peeves and true …
Identifying Jews: The Legacy Of The 1941 Exhibition, "Le Juif Et La France" , Raymond Bach
Identifying Jews: The Legacy Of The 1941 Exhibition, "Le Juif Et La France" , Raymond Bach
Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature
During the Occupation there was a two-pronged effort to separate the Jews from the rest of the French population...
Satire In African Letters: Black Appraisals Of White Ethnologists In The Works Of Ferdinand Oyono, Tchicaya U'Tam'si And Yambo Ouloguem, Ingeborg M. Kohn
Satire In African Letters: Black Appraisals Of White Ethnologists In The Works Of Ferdinand Oyono, Tchicaya U'Tam'si And Yambo Ouloguem, Ingeborg M. Kohn
Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature
Among the black African writers who have singled out whites for satirical treatment, the novelists Ferdinand Oyono and Yambo Ouologuem and the poet Tchicaya U'Tam'si have focused on a certain type of ethnologist: the man who has come in the guise of explorer and scientist, but whose prejudices, ignorance, greed, presumptuousness and other negative characteristics are soon unmasked by his native hosts. In their works, we find portraits depicting the white ethnologist that are not only unanimous expressions of scorn and contempt, but also examples of the skillfull use of satire as a literary weapon.