Title: The Colonial Comedy
Description: Through Jennifer Yee's close reading of the great novelists of the French realist and naturalist canon - Balzac, Flaubert, Zola, Maupassant - she reveals that the colonies play a role at a distance even in the most apparently metropolitan texts.
Subjects: French literature, history and criticism, French fiction, History and criticism, Postcolonialism, Postcolonialism in literature, Realism in literature, Imperialism in literature