Exotic Subversions in Nineteenth-century French Fiction: 25 (Legenda Research Monographs in French Studies)

by JenniferYee (Author)

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  2008

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  In the course of the nineteenth century France built up a colonial empire second only to Britains. The literary tradition in which it dealt with its colonial 'Other' is frequently understood in terms of Edward Said's description of Orientalism as both a Western projection and a 'will to govern' over the Orient.