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Staging the Buddha: Victor Segalen’s Siddhârtha and the Unsettlement of Western Culture |
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Thévoz, Samuel (著)
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Hualin International Journal of Buddhist Studies
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| Volume | v.1 n.1 Special Issue: Buddhism in the West |
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| Date | 2018.05 |
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| Pages | 192 - 225 |
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| Publisher | Cambria Press |
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http://www.cambriapress.com/
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| Location | New York, US [紐約州, 美國] |
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| Content type | 期刊論文=Journal Article |
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| Language | 英文=English |
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| Note | Author Affiliations: Université Sorbonne nouvelle |
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| Keyword | Victor Segalen; Literary Globalization; Theatre History; Orientalism; Life of the Buddha; Modern Buddhism; Literary Geography |
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| Abstract | Colombo, November 1904. Returning from Tahiti to France after an almost two-year trip, a dispatch boat made an unforeseen six-week stop-over. Victor Segalen (1878–1919), the French famous post-Symbolist poet, had been appointed as the shipboard physician. During this unplanned stay, Segalen encountered Theravādin Buddhism and was inspired to write a play not on the Buddha as god, idol, or myth, but on the human life of Siddhārtha Gautama, the historical Buddha. Segalen did not fully know at the time that similar dramatic projects had already been attempted by other European writers and artists. Furthermore, he soon discovered that his own encounter with Buddhism took place at a crucial point of world history. By writing a play on the Buddha, Segalen actually testified to an era of unsettlement in which Buddhism, Empire and Modernism met. I argue here that a contextualized analysis of Segalen’s drama helps delineate important and underestimated transnational and cross-cultural issues of the early twentieth century. |
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| Table of contents | To Claude Reichler 193
I. Theatre going global in the late nineteenth century 195
II. The ‘Buddhist culture’ in France and the life of the Buddha in the arts 196
III. Re-reading Siddhârtha or the drama of the unsettlement of space 198
IV. An exotic setting and a static character: a distance away from set patterns 202
V. Siddhârtha and the aesthetics of Diversity in the wake of the global world 204
VI. Segalen’s encounter with Buddhism: a crisis of values 205
VII. On the edge of two cultural worlds: from the biography to the play 207
VIII. From exotic setting to symbolic geography: a cross-cultural dramatic space 209
IX. Achieving Realization: Buddhahood as a self-experienced spatial reordering 212
Conclusion: Segalen’s exoticism and the intercultural dawn of the global theatre 215
Acknowledgements 219
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| ISSN | 25762923 (P); 25762931 (E) |
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| DOI | https://dx.doi.org/10.15239/hijbs.01.01.07 |
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| Created date | 2021.03.22 |
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| Modified date | 2021.03.22 |
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