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Liverpool University Press The Reparative in Narratives: Works of Mourning in Progress (Contemporary French and Francophone Cultures): 13

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Product Description Rosello is one of the most influential critics in Francophone studies. This book offers a new approach to reading and 'repairing' the trauma decolonisation. It provides fresh insight into Algerian independence and the cultural repercussions. 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 participate in our evolving perception of what Gayatri Spivak calls the 'planet'. "The Reparative in Narratives" argues that argue that they repair trauma through writing. One description of these awe-inspiring, tender and sometimes horrifying tales is that their narrators are survivors who have experienced and sometimes inflicted unspeakable acts of violence. And yet, ultimately, despair, nihilism, cynicism or silence are never the consequences of their encounter with what some quickly call evil. The traumatic event has not killed them and has not killed their desire to write or perform, although the decidedly altered life that they live in the aftermath of the disaster forces them to become different types of storytellers. They are the first-person narrators of their story, and their narration reinvents them as speaking subjects. In turn, this requires that we accept new reading pacts. That pact is a temporal and geographical signature: the reparative narrative needs readers prepared to accept that healing belongs to the realm of possibilities and that exposure and denunciation do not exhaust the victim's range of possibilities. Rosello contends that this context-specific yet repeating pattern constitutes a response to the contemporary figuration of both globalized and extremely localized types of traumatic memories. Review "'The proposition of new reading strategies for a variety of texts (from novels to films, to theatrical texts, to legal texts) on historical memory is brilliant. It is a very important tool for anyone working on questions of silence and voice, displaced memory/ies, distorted stories and history, that have erupted in narratives over recent years at the junction of the colonial and postcolonial mentalities. This is one more of Mireille Rosello's definitive contributions to the advancement of scholarly work on contemporary Francophone cultures that will appeal to all fields of the social sciences.' --Professor Michel Laronde, University of Iowa About the Author 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).

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Brand: Liverpool University Press
Format: Hardcover
ASIN: 1846312205
Category: Books > Subjects > Poetry, Drama & Criticism > History & Criticism
Domain: Amazon UK
Release Date: 14 September 2009
Listed Since: 18 April 2009

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