The Colonial Comedy: Imperialism in the French Realist Novel
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 23 June 2016
- ISBN 9780198722632
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages260 pages
- Size 237x161x20 mm
- Weight 532 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
Bridging the gap between Postcolonial theory and nineteenth-century literary studies, The Colonial Comedy renews our vision of key authors of realist canon (Balzac, Flaubert, Zola and Maupassant).
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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.
The Colonial Comedy directs its reader towards the shadowy presence of colonial politics at the margins of the French novel, drawing our attention to an array of colonial objects and products, to conspiracies of financial speculation and exploitation, to the vagaries of colonial fortunes won and lost ... The book, indeed, is rich in its evaluation of an array of literary works and critical perspectives, and close readings are poignant and incisive.
