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French Guiana
Hailed 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 Guiana—Memory 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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The Paradoxes of Description in André Gide's Voyage au Congo and Le retour du Tchad
If we take travel writing to be a genre of literature that wishes for a relatively transparent or one-to-one relation to objective fact, or whose central writerly tasks are often not narrative but observational in nature—and thus, while limited in scope and accuracy in the way that all observations are due to the limits of education, perception, and expertise of each and every individual whether \"author\" or \"scientist\"—an assumed ontological difference between literature and science seems less fixed. [...]even within this genre, whose basic dimensions are less distinct from some scientific genres and their epistemological and aesthetic frames, when a travel narrative uses a rhetoric of scientific pretense and a vocabulary culled from science's expansive lexicon, the difference between a literary author's lucidity of expression and a scientist's objectivity of \"capture\" or representation seems difficult to parse. [...]we must reevaluate Gide's travelogues to see to what degree the descriptive material of the books are \"devoid of most human content.\" (63) Ethnographic description involves the force of attention, the specificity of description, and the object being described. [...]these objects of attention are not spun, as in bourgeois description of the naturalist novel, into achieving a status of the naturalized environment that reflects the interiority (and so fate) of characters: these attributes of human life are not in that way moralized. [...]the point of Gide's description is as much to emphasize the utility of the technique and, referring back to the interest he took in the \"baskets\" during the dance, the artistry to which they contribute when put into cultural practice.
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Hysteria
Antipoetry can be described through its key features, and these characteristics define Kim's poetry as well: a deliberately prosaic tone and form, an interest in spoken language, and the use of irony. In \"Night Traveler 2,\" the speaker casts doubt upon the presumed goal of poetry- communication: \"Communication? What communication? I try to go deep, but I'm barely a few centimeters in\" However you put it, this sentiment is an effective measure of the reader: while \"deep\" and \"shallow\" are riddled with too much bias to communicate much, what a reader wants from poetry is questioned, and, equally, what reactions to poetry are considered legitimate enters into consideration as well.
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