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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. |