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Patrick Chamoiseau: Recovering Memory

Patrick Chamoiseau: Recovering Memory

Publié le par Gabriel Marcoux-Chabot (Source : Liverpool University Press website)


Maeve McCUSKER, Patrick Chamoiseau: Recovering Memory, Liverpool, Liverpool University Press (Contemporary French and Francophone Cultures), 2007, 256 p.


SUMMARY

This timely new book skilfully examines the work of the acclaimedwriter Patrick Chamoiseau. McCusker sets the author in context,providing a valuable contribution to ‘memory studies’ by looking atliterary representation of memory in Martinique, a society founded onslavery but now politically assimilated to the metropolitan centre,France.