The cultural other in Malraux's Asian novels

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The inequality of power relations between European colonizers and the colonized in Asia is reflected in Andre Malraux's four novels set in Asia. The colonial context and cultural politics associated with European identity in the 1920s-30s contribute to the ambivalence that marks Malraux's portrayal of culturally hybrid characters such as Hong in 'Les Conquerants' and Tchen in 'La condition humaine.' Malraux's European characters are able to move easily in Asian cultures without threat to their cultural identity, but Asian characters who become Westernized do not fit in either world.

Analysis, Portrayals, Literature, Exoticism in literature, Exoticism, East and West, East-West relations, Malraux, Andre

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Intersections of female identity or writing the woman in two novels by Mayotte Capecia and Marie-Magdeleine Carbet

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The complexity of Martinican women defies static racial categorization. This is evidenced in Mayotte Capecia's 'Je suis Martiniquaise' and Marie-Magdeleine Carbet's 'D'une rive a l'autre,' whose complexity differs from the racial characterizations in texts by men such as Aime Cesaire's 'Negritude' and Edouard Glissant's 'Antillanite.' These texts by women offer anothether view of the sociocultural issues with which the Caribbean peoples are enmeshed and of male expectations of female writing.

Caribbean literature, Capecia, Mayotte, Carbet, Magdeleine

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Anglophone presence in the early novels of Anne Hebert

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This article examines French Canadian author Anne Hebert's 1982 novel 'Les Fous de Bassan,' which focus on characters in an English speaking village in Quebec. The author looks at the presence of anglophones and their predisposition to self-destruction in this novel.

Quebec, Influence, English language, Critical Essay, Authors, Canadian, Canadian literature, Canadian writers, Hebert, Anne

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