Name: Repair the World: French Literature in the Twenty-First Century
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Author: Gefen, Alexandre ; Raleigh, Tegan
ISBN: 9783111427881

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Repair the World: French Literature in the Twenty-First Century

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Physical Book

Author

Alexandre Gefen

Translated by

Tegan Raleigh

Publisher

de Gruyter

Language

English

Pages

280

Format

Hardcover

ISBN13

9783111427881

Synopsis "Repair the World: French Literature in the Twenty-First Century"

Talk of repair has become ubiquitous in recent years. In the age of trauma culture, art and literature have a new purpose: to do justice, to console, comfort, and heal. Drawing on works of twenty-first-century French-language literature, this monograph shows how literature can not only serve as a means of "personal development", but expand our capacity for empathy, help repair the "brokenness" implied in victimhood, and redress individual and collective traumas. Centered on a critical reflection on discourses of repair (and reparations), it questions the canonical theories on the functions of literature and proposes a new way of writing (and reading) literary history.

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