Le roman colonial: la crise de la littérature exotique et l’essor de l’ethnographie
Colonial Novel: the Crisis of Exotic Literature and the Development of Ethnography

Author(s): Małgorzata Sokołowicz
Subject(s): Theoretical Linguistics, Applied Linguistics, French Literature, Philology
Published by: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
Keywords: colonial novel; ethnography; exotic literature; crisis; Aïssaoua; Aline Réveillaud de Lens
Summary/Abstract: The aim of the present paper is to show how the crisis of exotic literature, understood as the first type of literature inspired directly by colonies, contributed to the development of ethnography. The paper is divided into three parts. The first one defines exotic literature and analyses the reasons of its crisis. The second presents the main theories concerning colonial novel coming from the beginning of the 20th century; and the last part shows the example of an ethnographic discourse in one of the colonial novels praised by their theoreticians: "Derrière les vieux murs en ruines" by Aline Réveillaud de Lens (1881-1925).

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