{"id":9652,"date":"2022-05-18T11:02:00","date_gmt":"2022-05-18T09:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/redheadwithabrain.ch\/?p=9652"},"modified":"2022-05-24T22:38:29","modified_gmt":"2022-05-24T20:38:29","slug":"madame-chrysantheme-pierre-loti-1887","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redheadwithabrain.ch\/index.php\/2022\/05\/18\/madame-chrysantheme-pierre-loti-1887\/","title":{"rendered":"Madame Chrysanth\u00e8me &#8211; Pierre Loti (1887)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Roman d'&#8221;inspiration&#8221; autobiographique, Pierre Loti raconte son d\u00e9barquement de la corvette cuirass\u00e9e<em> <\/em>&#8220;Triomphante&#8221; en 1885 \u00e0 Nagasaki . Il arrive au Japon en juillet et y \u00e9pouse, par contrat renouvelable d&#8217;un mois, une jeune femme baptis\u00e9e\u00a0Kikou-San, soit Madame Chrysanth\u00e8me. Il semblerait que cette pratique soit courante et officielle. Pierre Loti restera \u00e0 peine plus d&#8217;un mois \u00e0 Nagasaki avant de retourner en France, laissant Madame Chrysanth\u00e8me se trouver un autre mari&#8230; si possible. L&#8217;histoire ne d\u00e9crit que leurs sorties pour aller \u00e0 des f\u00eates avec des amis ou des moments chez eux qui laissent transpara\u00eetre un ennui chez le narrateur. Mais surtout le texte est \u00e9crit avec un point de vue occidental de sup\u00e9riorit\u00e9,  empreint d&#8217;un racisme \u00e9vident pour les Japonais et d&#8217;un m\u00e9pris pour la femme que j&#8217;ai trouv\u00e9 affligeant. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>&#8220;Chrysanth\u00e8me est \u00e0 part, parce qu&#8217;elle est triste. Qu&#8217;est-ce qui peut bien se passer dans cette petite t\u00eate ? Ce que je sais de son langage m&#8217;est encore insuffisant pour le d\u00e9couvrir. D&#8217;ailleurs, il y a cent \u00e0 parier qu&#8217;il ne s&#8217;y passe rien du tout. Et quand m\u00eame, cela me serait si \u00e9gal !&#8230; Je l&#8217;ai prise pour me distraire, et j&#8217;aimerais mieux lui voir une de ces insignifiantes petites figures sans souci comme en ont les autres.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Roman d&#8217;&#8221;inspiration&#8221; autobiographique, Pierre Loti raconte son d\u00e9barquement de la corvette cuirass\u00e9e &#8220;Triomphante&#8221; en 1885 \u00e0 Nagasaki . Il arrive au Japon en juillet et y \u00e9pouse, par contrat renouvelable d&#8217;un mois, une jeune femme baptis\u00e9e\u00a0Kikou-San, soit Madame Chrysanth\u00e8me. Il semblerait que cette pratique soit courante et officielle. Pierre Loti restera \u00e0 peine plus d&#8217;un [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9653,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[142,154,155],"tags":[111,112,80],"class_list":["post-9652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-books-2022","category-challenge-riquiqui-2022","category-challenge-solidaire-2022","tag-abuse","tag-history","tag-travel"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/redheadwithabrain.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/alex-shaw-OW3akBo_vhg-unsplash-scaled-e1653384369897.jpg?fit=1707%2C1145&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/redheadwithabrain.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9652","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/redheadwithabrain.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/redheadwithabrain.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redheadwithabrain.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redheadwithabrain.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9652"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/redheadwithabrain.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9652\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9698,"href":"https:\/\/redheadwithabrain.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9652\/revisions\/9698"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redheadwithabrain.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/redheadwithabrain.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redheadwithabrain.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redheadwithabrain.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}