Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- List of illustrations
- Introduction
- 1 At death's door: illness, ritual and liminality in Darrieussecq, Lenoir, and Mauvignier
- 2 Suicide and saving face in Bon, Mauvignier and Bergounioux
- 3 Commemoration, monument and identity in Bergounioux, Darrieussecq and Rouaud
- 4 Retouching the past: family photographs and documents in Rouaud, Bon and Lenoir
- Conclusion: Writing passage and the passage to writing
- Notes
- Select bibliography
- Index
Acknowledgements
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- List of illustrations
- Introduction
- 1 At death's door: illness, ritual and liminality in Darrieussecq, Lenoir, and Mauvignier
- 2 Suicide and saving face in Bon, Mauvignier and Bergounioux
- 3 Commemoration, monument and identity in Bergounioux, Darrieussecq and Rouaud
- 4 Retouching the past: family photographs and documents in Rouaud, Bon and Lenoir
- Conclusion: Writing passage and the passage to writing
- Notes
- Select bibliography
- Index
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- Thresholds of MeaningPassage, Ritual and Liminality in Contemporary French Narrative, pp. ix - xPublisher: Liverpool University PressPrint publication year: 2011