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

Rosello, Mireille

ISBN 10: 1846312213 / ISBN 13: 9781846312212

Editore: Liverpool University Press, Liverpool, England, 2010

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Published by Liverpool University Press of Liverpool, England in 2010. Soft cover, so no Dust Jacket. Book condition: Very Good. Both cover and inside pages are in good order. See photograph. Dims: 235mm x157mm x 15mm. 256 pages. 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 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.

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• Titolo: The Reparative in Narratives: Works of Mourning in Progress: 13 (Contemporary French and Francophone Cultures)
• Editore: Liverpool University Press, Liverpool, England
• Data di pubblicazione: 2010
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1846312213
• ISBN 13: 9781846312212
• Rilegatura: Soft cover
• Condizione: Very Good
• Condizione della sovraccoperta: No Jacket
• Peso: 0,6 chilogrammi

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Riassunto

The authors studied in this volume represent a Francophone archipelago unfamiliar to any mapmaker, but drawn together through their use of narrators who are survivors and, sometimes, inflictors, of unspeakable acts of violence. These authors, then, Mireille D. Rosello argues, repair trauma through the act of writing. The reparative narratives introduced here require that readers be prepared to accept that healing belongs to a whole realm of potential outcomes—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 our contemporary understanding of both globalized and extremely localized types of traumatic memories.

Informazioni sugli autori

Mireille D. Rosello is chair of the Program of Comparative Studies at the University of Amsterdam. Her many books include Postcolonial Hospitality and France and the Maghreb: Performative Encounters.

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).