Appréhender l’Autre

This issue offers a multifaceted perspective on the confrontation between Europeans and so-called savages, colonists and colonized peoples (Africans, Orientals, Native Americans, etc.), and aims to broaden a little-explored perspective to include all representations of the Other exploited by French writers, particularly in their fiction, from the seventeenth to the nineteenth century. A focus on the study of colonial otherness as it is understood, modified and shaped by literary genres allows the authors of this issue to examine not only the theme of exoticism, but also the phenomena of slavery and oppression, as well as the notions of fanaticism and tolerance.res allows the authors of this issue to examine not only the theme of exoticism, but also the phenomena of slavery and oppression, as well as the notions of fanaticism and tolerance.