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Author:   Erica L. Johnson ,  Éloïse Brezault ,  Marianne Hirsch
Publisher:   Springer International Publishing AG
Imprint:   Springer International Publishing AG
Edition:   Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2017
Weight:   2.903kg
ISBN:  

9783319844336

ISBN 10:   3319844334
Pages:   202
Publication Date:   03 August 2018
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

1. Introduction.- 2. “The Value of Memory in Testimonies on African Civil Wars: Kidder’s and Beah’s Problematic Journey to the West,” by Éloïse Brezault.- 3. “The Intimate Archive of Patrick Chamoiseau,” by Erica L. Johnson.- 4. “Imagined Encounters: Assia Djebar’s Vaste est la prison,” by Natalie Edwards.- 5.“The Bagne as Memory Site: From Colonial Reportage to Postcolonial Traces-mémoires,” by Charles Forsdick.- 6. “Memory, Orality, and Nation-Building in Patrice Nganang’s La saison des prunes,” by Nathalie Carré.- 7. “History, Testimony and Postmemory: The Algerias of Pauline Roland and Assia Djebar,” Judith DeGroat. - 8. “On Exactitude in Poetry: The Cartographic Histories of Garrett Hongo’s Coral Road,” Roy Osamu Kamada.- 9.“Remapping the Memory of Slavery: Leonora Miano’s Theatrical Dream, Red in blue trilogie,” by Judith G. Miller.- 10.“‘Still in the Difficulty’: The Afterlives of Archives,” by Wendy Walters.

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Erica L. Johnson is Associate Professor in the English Department at Pace University in New York City and the author of Caribbean Ghostwriting (2009) and Home, Maison, Casa (2003). She is also the co-editor with Patricia Moran of The Female Face of Shame (2013) and Jean Rhys: Twenty-First Century Approaches (2015). She has published widely on modernist and postcolonial literature. Éloïse Brezault is Assistant Professor at Saint Lawrence University and the author of Johnny Chien Méchant par Emmanuel Dongala (2012), on the representation of child soldiers in Dongala’s novel, Johnny Mad Dog. She has published a collection of interviews with Francophone African writers, Afrique, Paroles d’écrivains (2010). She currently works as the associate editor of the academic journal Nouvelles Études Francophones and she has written numerous articles on Francophone African literature and postcolonial studies.

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