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1 juin 2017
- doi: 10.4000/books.pufr.4189
- eisbn: 9782869064690
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Brent Hayes Edwards, « Wideman’s Breadth », Presses universitaires François-Rabelais, ID : 10.4000/books.pufr.4189
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I have decided here to retain the context-specific gestures and mode of address that bind this introduction to its moment, rather than to try and clean it into a more abstract essayistic form. I do so partly because it seems to me appropriate to discuss the historical imperative in Wideman in a form that strives for the rough-edged contingency and layered voices in much of his fiction. Moreover, it seems fitting to honor Michel Fabre, for me the dean of European Americanists, by evoking an oc...