Victor Segalen and the Aesthetics of Diversity Journeys between Cultures [Hardcover]

With the appearance of Victor Segalen'sComplete Worksin 1995, the dramatic scope and wide-ranging implications of his reflections on exoticism were at last fully apparent. This study asserts the originality of Segalen's notion of exoticism while offering the first comprehensive study of the genesis of his aesthetics.

List of Abbreviations
Introduction: Victor Segalen and the Aesthetics of Diversity
1. Defining the Exotic: Exotcism as an Approach to Radical Diversity
2. Exoticism and Empire: Colonial Literature and Post-Colonial Critique
3. Polynesia and Difference
4. China and Alterity
5. Towards a New Practice of Exoticism
Conclusion
Select Bibliography
Index

[An] impressive and timely study. --Times Literary Supplement

Charles Forsdick is Lecturer in French, University of Glasgow