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The Colonial Comedy: Imperialism in the French Realist Novel (Hardcover)
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The Colonial Comedy: Imperialism in the French Realist Novel (Hardcover)
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Nineteenth-century French Realism focuses on metropolitan France,
with Paris as its undisputed heart. Through Jennifer Yee's close
reading of the great novelists of the French realist and naturalist
canon - Balzac, Flaubert, Zola, Maupassant - The Colonial Comedy
reveals that the colonies play a role at a distance even in the
most apparently metropolitan texts. In what Edward Said called
'geographical notations' of race and imperialism the presence of
the colonies off-stage is apparent as imported objects, colonial
merchandise, and individuals whose colonial experience is
transformative. Indeed, the realist novel registers the presence of
the emerging global world-system through networks of importation,
financial speculation, and immigration as well as direct colonial
violence and power structures. The literature of the century
responds to the last decades of French slavery, and direct
colonialism (notably in Algeria), but also economic imperialism and
the extension of French influence elsewhere. Far from imperialist
triumphalism, in the realist novel exotic objects are portrayed as
fake or mass-produced for the growing bourgeois market, while
economic imperialism is associated with fraud and manipulation. The
deliberate contrast of colonialism and exoticism within the
metropolitan novel, and ironic distancing of colonial narratives,
reveal the realist mode to be capable of questioning its own
epistemological basis. The Colonial Comedy argues for the existence
in the nineteenth century of a Critical Orientalism characterized
by critique of its own discursive foundations. Using the tools of
literary analysis within a materialist approach, The Colonial
Comedy opens up the domestic Paris-Provinces axis to signifying
chains pointing towards the colonial space.
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