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Emily Apter

Continental Drift

From National Characters to Virtual Subjects

302 pages, 16 halftones  6 x 9  © 1999

Cloth $65.00

ISBN: 9780226023496   Published June 1999

Paper $25.00

ISBN: 9780226023502   Published June 1999

Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Continental Theory on Different Continents
Part One: National Characters
1: Uprooted Subjects: Barrès and the Politics of Patrimoine
2: Saints at Stake: Joan of Arc as National Pathology
3: Out of Character: Camus's French Algerian Subjects
4: Character Assassination: Racial Pathologies, Colonial Crimes—Fanon, Mannoni, Lacan, Paulhan
Part Two: Metropolitan Masquerades
5: Harem: Scopic Regimes of Power/Phallic Law
6: Ethnographic Travesties: Alibis of Gender and Nation in the Case of Elissa
7: Acting Out Orientalism: Stereotype, Performativity, the Isabelle Eberhardt Effect
8: Cleopatra's Nose: Characterology and the Modern Subject in Belle Epoque Paris
Part Three: Virtual Colonies
9: The Dance of Colonial Seduction: Flaubert and the Line of Desire
10: The Landscape of Photogeny: "Morocco" in Black and White
11: Impotent Epic: The Crisis of Literary Tourism in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction
12: Postcolonial Cyberpunk: Dirty Nationalism in the Era of Terminal Identities
13: Nomadologies of Tomorrow: The Deleuzean Worldscape
Notes
Index









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