Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature (Jan 1981)

Barthes's Imaginary Voyages

  • Lynn A. Higgins

DOI
https://doi.org/10.4148/2334-4415.1103
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 5, no. 2

Abstract

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Reading L 'Empire des signes and Alors la Chine as points of departure, the article explores a network of reciprocal images of the text as voyage and the voyage as text, with Barthes as a self-styled, disinherited ethnographer/traveler.