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Title:The African Colonial Society in French Colonial Novels
Author:Cairns, M.A.C.
Year:1969
Periodical:Cahiers d'études africaines
Volume:9
Issue:34
Pages:175-193
Language:English
Geographic terms:Africa
France
colonial territories
Subjects:colonists
French
colonialism
novels (form)
Literature, Mass Media and the Press
External link:https://doi.org/10.3406/cea.1969.3161
Abstract:Following a method discussed by Margaret Mead in 'The Study of Culture at a Distance', and, later on, experimented by her (with Rhoda Métraux) in 'Themes in French Culture' (1954), the author used a random sample of 52 colonial novels as source material for this sociological study. The paper is a catalogue of the main themes in these novels, from which should emerge a general outline of French colonial society as seen by French colonials. Notes, tables.
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