Reflecting on the relationship between memory, power, and national identity, this book examines the complex reactions of the people of the Caribbean to the 500th anniversary of Columbus's discovery of the New World. Viala analyzes the ways in which Columbus became a reservoir of metaphors to confront anxieties of the present with myths of the past.
Reflecting on the relationship between memory, power, and national identity, this book examines the complex reactions of the people of the Caribbean t...
Parfaitement contemporains l un de l autre, Marguerite Yourcenar et Alejo Carpentier ne se sont jamais lus. Ils ont pourtant interroge avec la meme passion les modalites poetiques d ecriture de l histoire, tant dans leurs recits de fiction que dans leurs essais. Sur la foi d une approche resolument comparatiste, ce livre veut faire dialoguer le - roman a histoire - yourcenarien et la novela con historia latino-americaine. Les yeux grands ouverts sur le passe, nos deux romanciers historiens mettent a l epreuve les historiographies traditionnelles pour proposer un mentir-vrai romanesque...
Parfaitement contemporains l un de l autre, Marguerite Yourcenar et Alejo Carpentier ne se sont jamais lus. Ils ont pourtant interroge avec la meme pa...
Reflecting on the relationship between memory, power, and national identity, this book examines the complex reactions of the people of the Caribbean to the 500th anniversary of Columbus's discovery of the New World. Viala analyzes the ways in which Columbus became a reservoir of metaphors to confront anxieties of the present with myths of the past.
Reflecting on the relationship between memory, power, and national identity, this book examines the complex reactions of the people of the Caribbean t...
