"Those Who Have Fallen Silent": Keeping Literature "au secret"

Jean Paulhan’s Research in Oral Literature

“…It is obscured. His critics, even when they scrutinize his commitment to secrecy (Trudel, 2004), stay within the confines of the Paris literary world which between the wars he admittedly came to dominate. Critics ignore the colonies and their cultural production; they carry worn-out assumptions about major and minor literature.…”