Introduction: novels of the beginnings
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Édouard Glissant declares: “Fiction is the right to tell, the right to voice the controled organization of the world”. In what manner did that right express itself at the dawn of French-speaking literatures? If the genre of the novel is linked with the development of the industrial society in Europe, one is obliged to consider it as an “imported” form in a majority of the French-speaking areas. To what extent do these first novels herald the features which will be recurrent in the later fictions of these literatures? To what extent do the French models play a part or to what extent do resorting to the novel form contests that very form within the context of postcolonial strategies?
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