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- Title
Stereotype formation and sleeping women: the misreading of Madame Chrysanthème.
- Authors
KAWAKAMI, AKANE
- Abstract
This article attempts to show that Pierre Loti's Madame Chrysanthème is a highly complex text, conscious of its own fin-de siècle context. His texts work both with and against the discourse of japonisme, the language of stereotype formation. The hero's ambivalent attitude towards the sleeping Chrysanthème embodies Loti's attitude towards Japan, with its conflicting desires and obligations. Such a novel was fated to be misread, but the article concludes that this, paradoxically, was the author's aim.
- Subjects
MADAME Chrysantheme (Book); LOTI, Pierre, 1850-1923; LITERARY characters; STEREOTYPES in literature; JAPAN in literature
- Publication
Forum for Modern Language Studies, 2002, Vol 38, Issue 3, p278
- ISSN
0015-8518
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1093/fmls/38.3.278