La couleur anti-locale d'Eugène Fromentin
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KAPOR, VLADIMIRDate
2005-2006Source Title
Nineteenth-Century French StudiesPublisher
University of Nebraska PressUniversity of Melbourne Author/s
KAPOR, VLADIMIRAffiliation
Arts: Department of French and Italian StudiesMetadata
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Kapor, V. (2005-2006). La couleur anti-locale d'Eugène Fromentin. Nineteenth-Century French Studies, 34(1&2), 63-74.Access Status
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Abstract
The aim of this article is to demonstrate that the Algerian travelogues of Eugène Frometin (Un Été dans le Sahara, 1857 ; Une Année dans le Sahel, 1858), nowadays often regarded as a non-canonical author, form a part of a subversive tendency within mid-nineteenth century exotic French literature, alongside better-known authors such as Baudelaire or Flaubert. The Romantic use of "local color," often draws on a repertoire of stereotypical elements and commonplaces harbored by the collective imagery as regards the Other. Fromentin's abstract and figurative description of the desert can be perceived as a rejection of this use. Moreover his choice to focus on the indescribable and thus draw the attention away from the manifestations of French colonisation is significant because of its ideological implications. (In French VK)
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local colour; Eugène Fromentin; "Un été dans le Sahara"; exoticismExport Reference in RIS Format
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