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The reparative in narratives : works of mourning in progress /

The authors studied in this book are drawn together through their use of narrators who are survivors and, sometimes, inflictors, of unspeakable acts of violence. These authors then repair trauma through the act of writing. The reparative narratives introduced here require that readers be prepared to...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Rosello, Mireille (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, 2010.
Series:Contemporary French and francophone cultures ; 13.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Algerian humour : Jay translating words and silences
  • René-Nicolas Ehni : matricide and deicide as figures of unforgivable violence and redemption during the Algerian War of Independence
  • The truth of false testimonies : false brothers in Michael Haneke's Caché
  • Gisèle Halimi's autobiographical and legal narratives : doing to trees what they did to me.