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Literature, Ethics, and Decolonization in Postwar France

The Politics of Disengagement

By (author) Daniel Just
Format: Paperback / softback
Publisher: Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, United Kingdom
Published: 13th Jul 2017
Dimensions: w 152mm h 229mm d 12mm
Weight: 312g
ISBN-10: 1107474868
ISBN-13: 9781107474864
Barcode No: 9781107474864
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Synopsis
Against the background of intellectual and political debates in France during the 1950s and 1960s, Daniel Just examines literary narratives and works of literary criticism arguing that these texts are more politically engaged than they may initially appear. As writings by Roland Barthes, Maurice Blanchot, Albert Camus, and Marguerite Duras show, seemingly disengaged literary principles - such as blankness, minimalism, silence, and indeterminateness - can be deployed to a number of potent political and ethical ends. At the time the main focus of this activism was the escalation of violence in colonial Algeria. The poetics formulated by these writers suggests that blankness, weakness, and withdrawal from action are not symptoms of impotence and political escapism in the face of historical events, but deliberate literary strategies aimed to neutralize the drive to dominate others that characterized the colonial project.

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'Throughout his detailed, meticulous analyses, Daniel Just astutely and persistently argues that disengagement is ethical and political.' Colin Davis, French Studies: A Quarterly Review