In Infância (2003), by Graciliano Ramos, memory appears as a mosaic form, which has forgetfulness as its creative force. The past can't be seen as a whole, but as fragments. Fragmentation is present at various levels of this work construction. The way of ordering the brief chapters, with considerable autonomy in relation to the whole, or the language, full of discontinuities, can be seen as examples of

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Fragmentation and memory

Les Confessions de saint Augustin ou le double langage de soi

Louis Althusser's the future lasts forever: The failure of auto‐redemption

This paper is based on the idea that the study of literary genres needs to take into consideration not only the formal features of the text but also the different contractual modalities which might appear in their reception. In other words, a text is only part of a specific writing genre when it is recognized as such by the addressee, operation which, although entailing certain theoretical knowledge, has a pragmatic character. It will be the reader who, individually and relying on all the data at his disposal, will decide the reading process which he finds more appropriate. In this paper we will try to show this process by analysing a corpus of autobiographical texts written by the first generation of African French-speaking female writers, a choice which aims to meet at the same time the criteria of cohesion (all the writers share the same social-historical context) and of representation, as we think that our conclusions are transferable to similar corpora, in particular to those which derive from the so called "emerging literatures".

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La literatura autobiográfica africana escrita por mujeres: contratos de lectura / (The African autobiographical literature written by women: reading contracts)

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Hiding One’s Feelings ‘Emotionless’ Rhetoric in Raul Hilberg’s The Destruction of the European Jews and Peter Weiss’s Die Ermittlung

American magazine of international literature and culture

Le pacte autobiographique

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Fragmentation and memory

Les Confessions de saint Augustin ou le double langage de soi

Louis Althusser's the future lasts forever: The failure of auto‐redemption

La literatura autobiográfica africana escrita por mujeres: contratos de lectura / (The African autobiographical literature written by women: reading contracts)

Hiding One’s Feelings ‘Emotionless’ Rhetoric in Raul Hilberg’s The Destruction of the European Jews and Peter Weiss’s Die Ermittlung

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