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Peer Review Status: Refereed
Title: 'L'Invisible Voyeur du Monde des Voyants': Critiques of French Society in Michel Tournier's La Goutte d'or and Guy Hocquenghem's L'Amour en relief
Author(s): Barclay, Fiona
Contact Email: fiona.barclay@stir.ac.uk
Keywords: France
immigrants
postcolonial
vision
image
France Social conditions 20th century
National characteristics, French
Issue Date: 2006
Date Deposited: 29-Jun-2011
Citation: Barclay F (2006) 'L'Invisible Voyeur du Monde des Voyants': Critiques of French Society in Michel Tournier's La Goutte d'or and Guy Hocquenghem's L'Amour en relief. Language and Intercultural Communication, 6 (3-4), pp. 275-285. https://doi.org/10.2167/laic254.0
Abstract: Since decolonisation, the increase in immigration from France’s former colonies in North Africa has prompted metropolitan writers to reconsider conceptions of French society. In their novels, Tournier and Hocquenghem present contemporary France through the defamiliarising eyes of a North African immigrant who serves as a device for the critique of French culture. This article investigates the opposition between the objectifying culture of the West, and the immigrants’ desert culture. It argues that this opposition is flawed, and that the division is between actual practices of seeing and the cultural discourses around vision.
DOI Link: 10.2167/laic254.0
Rights: Published in Language and Intercultural Communication by Taylor & Francis (Routledge).; This is an electronic version of an article published in Language and Intercultural Communication, Volume 6, Issue 3&4, 2006, pp. 275 - 285. Language and Intercultural Communication is available online at: http://www.informaworld.com/openurl?genre=article&issn=1470-8477&volume=6&issue=3&spage=275.

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