French Guiana: Memory Traces of the Penal Colony
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French Guiana: Memory Traces of the Penal Colony
Book Details
- Author
- Patrick Chamoiseau
- Publisher
- Wesleyan University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- Category
- Essays
- Condition
- New
- ISBN-13
- 9780819579300
- ISBN-10
- 0819579300
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ISBN: 0819579300
Author: Chamoiseau, Patrick
Condition: New
A top francophone writer explores postcolonial amnesia in a long-overdue translation from Matt ReeckHailed by Milan Kundera as "an heir of Joyce and Kafka," Prix Goncourt winner Patrick Chamoiseau is among the leading Francophone writers today. With most of his novels having appeared in English, this book opens a new window on his oeuvre. A moving poetic essay that bears witness to the forgotten history of the French penal colony in French Guiana, French GuianaMemory Traces of the Penal Colony accompanied by more than sixty evocative color photographs by Rodolphe Hammadi and translated, here for the first time, deftly by Matt Reeck.
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