Interworlds and inter-identities in Mémoires d’outre-mer and Scrabble
Kawakami, Akane (2023) Interworlds and inter-identities in Mémoires d’outre-mer and Scrabble. Contemporary French and Francophone Studies 27 (5), pp. 662-670. ISSN 1740-9292.
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Abstract
Memoires d’outre-mer and Scrabble, a biography of Ferrier’s paternal grandfather and an autobiographical account of Ferrier’s childhood respectively, are two quite different works from the point of view of structure, setting and characters. But I propose to analyse them together in this article because I believe they have much in common; a particular attitude towards the natural world, a non-standard view of space and time as well as of human identity and memory, and a deep-seated belief in the power of language. In this essay I focus specifically on the theme of human identity within, and as part of, the external world, and will be making use of some conceptual frameworks from ecocriticism in order to look at these works from a new perspective.
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| Item Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Additional Information: | Special issue titled 'Writing the World with Michaël Ferrier', edited by Célestin Roger, Eliane DalMolin, Fabien Arribert-Narce, Charles Forsdick, Akane Kawakami & Martin Munro |
| Keyword(s) / Subject(s): | Michael Ferrier, childhood, transnational literature, Chad, Madagascar, ecocriticism |
| School: | Birkbeck Faculties and Schools > Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences > School of Creative Arts, Culture and Communication |
| Research Centres and Institutes: | Aesthetics of Kinship and Community, Birkbeck Research in (BRAKC) |
| Depositing User: | Akane Kawakami |
| Date Deposited: | 01 Jul 2024 12:46 |
| Last Modified: | 02 Jul 2024 09:22 |
| URI: | https://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/53767 |
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