Setting out for the East with Flaubert, Maxime Du Camp published on his return Le Nil (1854). With this incursion into an African Egypt, the traveler, who prepares for his career as a writer, constructs both the landscape and the population according to the ambivalent paradigm of blackness, disturbing and attractive, primitivist and exotic. The stay on Elephantine Island, meanwhile, is described as a small natural utopia, an opportunity to fantasize about an oriental identity as a cosmopolitan dream.
CLIL theme: 4027 -- SCIENCES HUMAINES ET SOCIALES, LETTRES -- Lettres et Sciences du langage -- Lettres -- Etudes littéraires générales et thématiques
ISBN:978-2-406-09574-3
EAN:9782406095743
ISSN: 0035-2136
DOI: 10.15122/isbn.978-2-406-09574-3.p.0197
Publisher: Classiques Garnier
Online publication: 09-22-2019
Periodicity: Monthly
Language: French
Keyword: Africa, travel, blackness, Elephantine Island, utopia