ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the key concepts discussed in the preceding chapters of this book. The book has looked in detail at four very different examples of French exotic writing taken from across the length of the nineteenth century. More crucially, for people's purposes, the parallel study of these texts has revealed a common preoccupation with language as an object in itself - not only with literary language and linguistic play of the kind common to any work of literature, but with language as one among others, in other words with polyglossia, or exotic heteroglossia. This preoccupation with language is not without its own problems. In a way that is suggestive of such a return of force against hegemonic literatures, Deleuze and Guattari write of the use of a dominant language by a minority writer, and call for a 'deterritorialisation' of literary language in general along the lines of that found in 'une litterature mineure'.
