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Author:

Rosello, Mireille

Title:

The reparative in narratives : works of mourning in progress / Mireille Rosello.

Publisher:

Liverpool University Press,

Copyright Date:

2010

Description:

x, 246 p. ; 25 cm.

Subject:

French literature--20th century--History and criticism.
History in literature
Reparation in literature
Narration (Rhetoric)
Death in literature
Bereavement in literature
Repentance in literature

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [224]-237) and index.

Contents:

Introduction : from the debate on repentance to the reparative in memorial narratives -- Algerian humour : Jay translating words and silences -- Ren©♭-Nicolas Ehni : matricide and deicide as figures of unforgivable violence and redemption during the Algerian War of Independence -- The truth of false testimonies : false brothers in Michael Haneke's Cach©♭ -- Gis©·le Halimi's autobiographical and legal narratives : doing to trees what they did to me -- Conclusion : repentence and detective fiction : legal powerlessness and the power of narratives.

Series:

Contemporary French and Francophone studies ; 13

ISBN:

9781846312212 (pbk.)
1846312213 (pbk.)
1846312205 (cased)
9781846312205 (cased)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)520661758

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)