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Patrick Chamoiseau : recovering memory /

This timely new book skilfully examines the work of the acclaimed writer Patrick Chamoiseau. McCusker sets the author in context, providing a valuable contribution to memory studies by looking at literary representation of memory in Martinique, a society founded on slavery but now politically assimi...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: McCusker, Maeve
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, 2007.
Series:Contemporary French and francophone cultures ; 8.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Title Page; Contents; Introduction; 1: Beginnings: The Enigma of Origin; 2: 'Une tracée de survie': Autobiographical Memory; 3: Memory Re-collected: Witnesses and Words; 4: Memory Materialized: Traces of the Past; 5: Flesh Made Word: Traumatic Memory in Biblique des derniers gestes; Afterword; Notes; Bibliography; Index.