Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-264)
Pierre Loti and the Theatricality of Desire; Contents; Preface; Chapter 1 Theatricality; Chapter 2 The Cast; Chapter 3 The Stage; Chapter 4 The Wardrobe; Chapter 5 The Audience; General Bibliography; Bibliography of Texts by and on Loti
Pierre Loti and the Theatricality of Desire offers an original analysis of patterns of unconscious desire observable in the life and work of the French orientalist writer Pierre Loti. It aims to reconcile attitudes and conduct that have been regarded as contradictory and not amenable to analysis by locating the unconscious urges that motivate them. It looks at the ambiguous feelings Loti expresses towards his mother, the conflicting desires inherent in his bisexuality, and his deeply ambiguous sense of a cultural identity as expressed through his cross-cultural transvestism. The political impl
