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The modernist traveler : French detours, 1900-1930 / Kimberley J. Healey

Author
Healey, Kimberley J.
Published
Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2003]
Copyright Date
©2003
Physical Description
1 online resource (ix, 175 pages)
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Language Note
English.
Contents
1. Victor Segalen in China: The Other Which Is Not -- 2. Modern Time, Paul Morand, and Blaise Cendrars: The Relativity of Simultaneity -- 3. Travel Zones: Colonial and Textual Spaces -- 4. Anatomy of No Escape: Traveling Bodies.
Summary
The Modernist Traveler considers figures whose writing about travel rebelled against a literary tradition of exoticism, adventure stories, and novelistic travelogues. Instead these writers initiated a modernist strain in travel writing and a shift in the literary establishment and the culture at large. Kimberley J. Healey focuses on those French writers and thinkers who traveled in order to experience a displacement of both the inner self and the physical body while writing against the prevalent tradition of travel literature. The modern self, modern time, colonial spaces, and the physical body are Healey's concerns as she reads works by Victor Segalen, Paul Morand, Blaise Cendrars, Henri Michaux, Saint-John Perse, Guillaume Apollinaire, Paul Nizan, Albert Londres, Andre Malraux, Valery Larbaud, and Isabelle Eberhardt. Her book shows how, in the field of French literature, these texts about travel best capture the modernist experience of being alone in a world of new technologies, cultural diversity, and anxiety about the self. Kimberley J. Healey is an assistant professor of French at the University of Rochester.
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ISBN
0803203411 (electronic bk.)
9780803203419 (electronic bk.)
128137640X
9781281376404
9786611376406
6611376402
0803224125 (cloth ; alk. paper)
9780803224124 (cloth ; alk. paper)
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 159-169) and index.
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