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'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

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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.

Keywords
France; immigrants; postcolonial; vision; image; France Social conditions 20th century; National characteristics, French

Journal
Language and Intercultural Communication: Volume 6, Issue 3-4

StatusPublished
Publication date31/12/2006
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PublisherTaylor & Francis (Routledge)
ISSN1470-8477
eISSN1747-759X

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Dr Fiona Barclay

Dr Fiona Barclay

Senior Lecturer, French

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