The Reparative in Narratives - Works of Mourning in Progress

Informationen zum Autor 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). 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. 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.

Product details

• Authors: Mireille Rosello, Mireille D Rosello, Mireille D. Rosello
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 15.11.2009, delayed
• EAN: 9781846312205
• ISBN: 978-1-84631-220-5
• No. of pages: 256
• Series: Contemporary French and Francophone Cultures; CONTEMPORARY FRENCH AND FRANCO; CONTEMPORARY FRENCH AND FRANCO
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Folklore