Forget Camus keyword writing and the internet Jameson discusses modernist poetics Jameson discusses modernist poetics A diverse range of theoretically sophisticated and historically informed contributors take as given two fundamental facts about the culture of imperialism: firstly Forget Camus is a book about colonial history and a nation’s literature that lays bare the ideological contradictions of French society past and present The legacy of the most widely read Frenchman in the world has been co opted to present a flattering and false version of colonial history and is an obstacle to France coming to terms with its neocolonial present