Abstract
At the I964 UCLA symposium on plural societies, I read a paper on the former French colonies in tropical Africa. Following a method discussed by Margaret Mead in The Study of Culture at a Distance, and, later on, experimented by her (with Rhoda Metraux) in Themes in French Culture (I954), I used a random sample of 52 colonial novels as source material for this rather general sociological study. The present paper is a catalogue of the main themes in these novels from which should emerge a general outline of the French colonial society as the French colonials saw it. It is only fair to mention at this point that I am myself a colonial, which gives me both some inside knowledge of this society and a certain bias about its mores. It may also be stated that reading those 52 novels in one session was something of an ordeal.'
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