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Continental drift : from national characters to virtual subjects / Emily Apter.

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Main Author: Apter, Emily S.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Chicago, Ill. : University of Chicago Press, 1999.
Subjects:
France > Civilization > 20th century > Influence.
National characteristics, French.
Virtual reality > Social aspects.
Postcolonialism > France.
Nationalism > History > 20th century.
Intellectual life > History > 20th century.
Civilization > Influence.
Intellectual life.
Nationalism.
Postcolonialism.
France.
History.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Continental Theory on Different Continents
  • National Characters. 1. Uprooted Subjects: Barres and the Politics of Patrimoine. 2. Saints at Stake: Joan of Arc as National Pathography. 3. Out of Character: Camus's French Algerian Subjects. 4. Character Assassination: Racial Pathologies, Colonial Crimes
  • Fanon, Mannoni, Lacan, Paulhan
  • Metropolitan Masquerades. 5. Harem: Scopic Regimes of Power/Phallic Law. 6. Ethnographic Travesties: Alibis of Gender and Nation in the Case of Elissa Rhais. 7. Acting Out Orientalism: Stereotype, Performativity, the Isabelle Eberhardt Effect. 8. Cleopatra's Nose: Characterology and the Modern Subject in Belle Epoque Paris
  • Virtual Colonies.

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