| Description |
1 online resource (184 pages) |
| Series |
Contemporary French and francophone cultures ; 8 |
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Contemporary French and francophone cultures ; 8.
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| 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 |
| Summary |
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 assimilated to the metropolitan centre, France |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Chamoiseau, Patrick -- Criticism and interpretation
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| SUBJECT |
Chamoiseau, Patrick fast |
| Subject |
Memory in literature.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- French.
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Memory in literature
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781846313738 |
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1846313732 |
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