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1 juin 2017
- doi: 10.4000/books.pufr.4176
- eisbn: 9782869064690
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William Ferris, « A Tribute and a photo portfolio », Presses universitaires François-Rabelais, ID : 10.4000/books.pufr.4176
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I first met Michel Fabre in 1978 when I was teaching in the Afro-American and American Studies Programs at Yale University. Michel was a legend among my colleagues who admired his fine biography The Unfinished Quest of Richard Wright and his encyclopedic knowledge of Afro-American writers. Michel and his wife Geneviève were doing research at Yale in the Beinecke Rare Book Library, and we often discussed my plans to move from New Haven to Oxford, Mississippi, to direct a newly created Center f...