[en] Through the textual and contextual analysis of selected African American plays, I have probed the various mnemopoetic strategies used by the playwrights to explore a past branded by the experience of slavery. The mnemopoetics of slavery appears to be irreducibly linked to a militant mnemopolitics of identity.
Disciplines :
Literature
Author, co-author :
Bada, Valérie ; Université de Liège > Département de langues et littératures modernes > Traduction de l'anglais vers le français
Language :
English
Title :
Mnemopoetics. Memory and Slavery in African-American Drama (1939-1996)
Defense date :
January 2003
Number of pages :
315
Institution :
ULiège - Université de Liège
Degree :
Doctorat en Philosophie et Lettres
Promotor :
Delrez, Marc ; Université de Liège - ULiège > Centre d'Enseignement et de Recherche en Etudes post-coloniales (CEREP)
