Colonizing the canon: metonymy and metropolitan fiction
The geographical focus of the French realist and naturalist novel is overwhelmingly on metropolitan France. A postcolonial reading of these metropolitan novels reveals, however, links to France’s colonies that cannot easily be reduced to colonialist propaganda. Such a reading deploys modes that migh...
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Oxford University Press
2018
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