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The Reparative in Narratives
Mireille Rosello
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Description for The Reparative in Narratives
Paperback. Presents studies of authors who can be visualized as the islands that constitute an unknown, fragile and trembling literary and cultural Francophone archipelago. This book argues that they repair trauma through writing. Series: Contemporary French and Francophone Cultures. Num Pages: 256 pages, 0. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DSB. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 234 x 158 x 14. Weight in Grams: 436.
The authors studied in this book can be visualized as the islands that constitute an unknown, fragile and trembling literary and cultural Francophone archipelago. The archipelago does not appear on any map, in the middle of an ocean whose name we already know. No Francophone anthology would put these authors together as a matter of course because what connects them is a narrative grammar rather than a national origin or even a language. Yet, their writing techniques and their apprehension of the real (the ways in which they know and name the world) both reflect and actively ... Read more
The authors studied in this book can be visualized as the islands that constitute an unknown, fragile and trembling literary and cultural Francophone archipelago. The archipelago does not appear on any map, in the middle of an ocean whose name we already know. No Francophone anthology would put these authors together as a matter of course because what connects them is a narrative grammar rather than a national origin or even a language. Yet, their writing techniques and their apprehension of the real (the ways in which they know and name the world) both reflect and actively ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Liverpool University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
Series
Contemporary French and Francophone Cultures
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
Liverpool, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781846312212
SKU
V9781846312212
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About Mireille Rosello
Mireille D. Rosello is Chair of the Program of Comparative Studies at the University of Amsterdam and was previously Professor of French literature and comparative literary studies at Northwestern University. Her many books include 'Postcolonial Hospitality' (Stanford University Press, 2001), and 'France and the Maghreb: Performative Encounters' (University of Florida Press, 2005).
Reviews for The Reparative in Narratives
Engagingly written and brilliantly argued, this is a landmark work that will shape critical thinking on memory and colonialism in France and beyond.
French Studies, vol 65
French Studies, vol 65