This article addresses questions of white hybridity and transcultural metamorphosis as they are scrutinized and played out in the writings on China and India of the contemporary French author and journalist Marc Boulet. It investigates the motivations behind Boulet’s will to cross-cultural self-transformation, and addresses the ways in which he seeks to coexist with the cultural Other. It adopts a critical perspective which is that of transnational cultural studies.
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