Pierre loti, victor segalen et l'exotisme
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Abstract EN:
The first part aims at defining exoticism and the succesive stage of the evolution of this notion in literature. The second part emphasizes the difference between the wides pread appeal of exoticism among the public, from 1870 to 1918, and among the writers, who wish to react against the prevailing mentality of their time. A close study of the literary field allow us to place loti and segalen in the literature of this time. The last three parts show that loti and segalen share a common conception of exoticism : as opponents to "tourism" and "colonialism", they set a time and geographical distance between what is "here" and "there"; by identifying themselves with the far east and china, they be tray a "split" identity.
Abstract FR:
La premiere partie cherche a definir l'exotisme et les etapes de l'evolution de la notion en litterature. La deuxieme partie souligne la difference entre le succes de l'exotisme dans le grand public, entre 1870 et 1918, et son succes chez les ecrivains, soucieux de s'opposer a la mentalite dominante de leur epoque. L'etude du champ litteraire permet de sit uer loti t segalen dans la litterature de cette periode. Les trois derniere parties montrent que loti et segalen partage nt une meme conception de l'exotisme : hostiles au tourisme comme au colonialisme, ils definissent une distance geograph ique et temporelle entre l'ici et l'ailleurs; s'identifiant a l'orient et a la chine, ils temoignent d'une identite eclatee.