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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      05 February 2015
      09 February 2015
      ISBN:
      9781316145463
      9781107093881
      9781107474864
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781316145463
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.47kg, 225 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (229 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.34kg, 228 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Literature, Area Studies, Twentieth Century European History, European Literature, History, European Studies
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    Literature, Area Studies, Twentieth Century European History, European Literature, History, European Studies
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    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 Source: French Studies: A Quarterly Review

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