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Author(s): Jennifer Yee
ISBN(s): 9780198722632, 019872263X
Edition: First edition
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Year: 2016
Language: english
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ISBN 10: 019872263X 
ISBN 13: 9780198722632
Author: Jennifer Yee

Nineteenth-century French Realism focuses on metropolitan France, with Paris as its undisputed heart. Through Jennifer Yee’s close reading of the great novelists of the French realist and naturalist canon – Balzac, Flaubert, Zola, Maupassant – The Colonial Comedy reveals that the colonies play a role at a distance even in the most apparently metropolitan texts. In what Edward Said called ‘geographical notations’ of race and imperialism the presence of the colonies off-stage is apparent as imported objects, colonial merchandise, and individuals whose colonial experience is transformative. Indeed, the realist novel registers the presence of the emerging global world-system through networks of importation, financial speculation, and immigration as well as direct colonial violence and power structures. The literature of the century responds to the last decades of French slavery, and direct colonialism (notably in Algeria), but also economic imperialism and the extension of French influence elsewhere. Far from imperialist triumphalism, in the realist novel exotic objects are portrayed as fake or mass-produced for the growing bourgeois market, while economic imperialism is associated with fraud and manipulation. The deliberate contrast of colonialism and exoticism within the metropolitan novel, and ironic distancing of colonial narratives, reveal the realist mode to be capable of questioning its own epistemological basis. The Colonial Comedy argues for the existence in the nineteenth century of a Critical Orientalism characterized by critique of its own discursive foundations. Using the tools of literary analysis within a materialist approach, The Colonial Comedy opens up the domestic Paris-Provinces axis to signifying chains pointing towards the colonial space.

The colonial comedy imperialism in the French realist novel 1st Table of contents:

1. Imported Objects
The Dualism of The Imported Object
Polemical Uses of The Exotic and Fantastic Within Realism
Capitalism_ The Object Within a System of Exchange
The Object in Colonial Context
Consumer Objects, Fragmentary Vision, and The Quest For The Oriental Absolute
2. The Real Cost of Sugar: Ethics, the Slave Trade, and the Colonies
Eugénie Grandet, Sugar, and The Slave Trade
Women as Slaves and The ‘Commerce D’hommes’
Crime at a Distance
Slavery and Autocratic Pastoral
Colonial Guilt and The Tainted Fortune
Zola’s Colonial Experiments and The Ethics of Distance
3. The Great Imperial Scam
Oriental Luxury, Metropolitan Fraud
The Debunking of Magical Money
Balzac and (Failed) Colonial Fraud
Daudet, Tunisian Debt, and The Ambivalent Stockbroker Hero
Zola’s L’argent, The Stockbroker Hero, and The Middle East
Maupassant’s Bel-Ami: An Anticolonial Novel?
Colonial Fraud and Critical Orientalism
4. Critical Orientalism: Misreading and Miswriting the Colonies
Misreading: Exotic Bovarysm in Flaubert and Daudet
Miswriting: Orientalism and The Invention of The Colonies
Narrative Embedding and Geographical Disjunction
Framed Narratives: Balzac’s Anti-Travel Tale, The Voyage De Paris À Java
Framed Narratives: The Penal Colony and Zola’s Ventre De Paris
Critical Orientalism and Self-Consciousness
5. The Black Maid and Her Mistress
Manet’s Olympia: Interpreting The Black Maidservant
Manet and Zola
Zola: The Black Maid and Abject Femininity
Flaubert: The Black Maidservant as Red Herring
Blackness Between Myth and History
6. The Primitive Within
Balzac: La Cousine Bette and The New Urban Proletariat
The Colonial Origins of Metropolitan Violence: Embedded Narratives in Balzac, Maupassant, And Zola
Thérèse Raquin: Colonial Inheritance Before Heredity
The Racial Other Goes Underground: La Bête Humaine and The Born Criminal
Dualism_ Zola’s Feral Victor and His Bourgeois Father
Zola, The Experimental Novel, and Epistemological Doubt
Conclusion: Colonialism, Postcolonialism, and the Realist Mode
The ‘Unknowable Other’, or The Problem With(In) Realism
Anxiety and The Dissolution of The Self
From Colonial Naturalism to Modernism
The Realist/Modernist Debate and Postcolonial Fiction

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