Search results for "Fred D'Aguiar"
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Another Life
2013
Many writers started their professional lives in very diverse fields before embracing writing, or on the contrary have turned away from writing. The present volume seeks to explore the complex relationship between that ‘other life’ and writing. The aim is to determine whether a writer’s ‘other life’ appears in, influences or even shapes his/her work, and to what extent. What is the part of gestation and that of rupture? A diversity of writers is examined: Patrick Chamoiseau, J. M. Coetzee, Jan J. Dominique, Janet Frame, Amitav Ghosh, L. K. Johnson, Wilson Harris, Dany Laferrière, Yannick Lahens, NourbeSe Philip, Emmelie Prophète, Arundhati Roy, Edward Said, but also Bartolomé de las Casas a…
"La musique du paysage": une écriture paysagère guyanienne
2014
National audience; This chapter introduces Wilson Harris's work to lay readers, with specific emphasis on landscape writing and the combination of real and symbolical spaces in Harris's novels. It also elaborates on issues tackled by Fred D'Aguiar's essay about Harris, a translation of which is included in the same volume.