Cultural Politics… Cultures of Resistance [IV] 17 Jun 200929 Aug 2009 A few weeks ago, I shared some thoughts about differences between and commonalities among Chinese and French postwar depictions of wartime resistance under Axis occupation. The vehicle for this discussion…
French… Le mort de Mathieu [I] 28 May 2009 So much of Sartre's Le Mort dans l'Âme is pessimistic, full of spite for the French army and regime, the very opposite of United Front literature in wartime China. Yet,…
China… Sartre / Cultures of Defeat [III] 21 May 200921 May 2009 In the concluding volume of his trilogy, Chemins de la Liberte, Sartre notes the futility of ascribing war to individuals as if it were some sort of moral choice. In…
Chinese Avant-Garde… Sartre / Cultures of Defeat [II] 18 May 2009 Before diving back into La Mort dans l’Âme / Troubled Sleep, a couple of observations about Chinese attitudes toward Sartre: 1. La Mort dans l’Âme , to my knowledge, has…
Cultural Politics… Sartre / Cultures of Defeat 17 May 200917 May 2009 One of the issues with which I am grappling as a scholar concerns the idea of a defeated country in war, and the tenacity of psychologies of resistance and defeat…
Adam Cathcart 