Oana Panaïté is Ruth N. Halls Professor of French and Francophone Studies at Indiana University-Bloomington and the author of Des littératures-mondes en français. Écritures singulières, poétiques transfrontalières dans la prose contemporaine (2012) and The Colonial Fortune of Contemporary Fiction in French (2017).

'This monograph will be of interest to any scholar working on contemporary French and Francophone literature, given the variety of disciplines the author draws from and insights that she offers to the reader. It bridges the gap between scholars focusing on metropolitan France and those working on francophone countries, as Panaïté points out a new disciplinary way forward.'Nanar Khamo, Studies in Twentieth and Twenty-First Century Literature

• AcknowledgmentsA Primal Scene: The Colonial FortunePart One: From Exotic Destinations to Colonial Destinies 1 Departures: Orphans, Heirs and Adventurers2 Landscape as VocationPart Two: Writing as Africans3 Distant Empathy4 Maps of Frenchness: Between Self-Invention and DelusionPart Three: Colonial Remanence5 Algeria’s Mortified Memory6 A Place of DialogueAn Unpayable Debt: For a Paracolonial AestheticsBibliographyIndex

Oana Panaïté is Ruth N. Halls Professor of French and Francophone Studies at Indiana University-Bloomington and the author of Des littératures-mondes en français. Écritures singulières, poétiques transfrontalières dans la prose contemporaine (2012) and The Colonial Fortune of Contemporary Fiction in French (2017).

'This monograph will be of interest to any scholar working on contemporary French and Francophone literature, given the variety of disciplines the author draws from and insights that she offers to the reader. It bridges the gap between scholars focusing on metropolitan France and those working on francophone countries, as Panaïté points out a new disciplinary way forward.'Nanar Khamo, Studies in Twentieth and Twenty-First Century Literature

• AcknowledgmentsA Primal Scene: The Colonial FortunePart One: From Exotic Destinations to Colonial Destinies 1 Departures: Orphans, Heirs and Adventurers2 Landscape as VocationPart Two: Writing as Africans3 Distant Empathy4 Maps of Frenchness: Between Self-Invention and DelusionPart Three: Colonial Remanence5 Algeria’s Mortified Memory6 A Place of DialogueAn Unpayable Debt: For a Paracolonial AestheticsBibliographyIndex

Oana Panaïté is Ruth N. Halls Professor of French and Francophone Studies at Indiana University-Bloomington and the author of Des littératures-mondes en français. Écritures singulières, poétiques transfrontalières dans la prose contemporaine (2012) and The Colonial Fortune of Contemporary Fiction in French (2017).

'This monograph will be of interest to any scholar working on contemporary French and Francophone literature, given the variety of disciplines the author draws from and insights that she offers to the reader. It bridges the gap between scholars focusing on metropolitan France and those working on francophone countries, as Panaïté points out a new disciplinary way forward.'Nanar Khamo, Studies in Twentieth and Twenty-First Century Literature

• AcknowledgmentsA Primal Scene: The Colonial FortunePart One: From Exotic Destinations to Colonial Destinies 1 Departures: Orphans, Heirs and Adventurers2 Landscape as VocationPart Two: Writing as Africans3 Distant Empathy4 Maps of Frenchness: Between Self-Invention and DelusionPart Three: Colonial Remanence5 Algeria’s Mortified Memory6 A Place of DialogueAn Unpayable Debt: For a Paracolonial AestheticsBibliographyIndex