{"id":318,"date":"2019-08-29T12:57:49","date_gmt":"2019-08-29T16:57:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/caribbeanstudiespress.com\/?product=memoir-of-an-amnesiac-4"},"modified":"2019-10-16T13:59:49","modified_gmt":"2019-10-16T17:59:49","slug":"memoir-of-an-amnesiac-4","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/caribbeanstudiespress.com\/?product=memoir-of-an-amnesiac-4","title":{"rendered":"Memoir of an Amnesiac"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Memoir of an Amnesiac<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><em>by Jan J. Dominique, translated by Irline Fran\u00c3\u00a7ois<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><em>foreword by Edwidge Danticat<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Now available in English, this remarkable narrative of exile, loss, memory and imagination resonates with its readers. The author draws upon her traumatic experiences growing up under the dictatorship of Fran\u00c3\u00a7ois Duvalier in this exploration of psychological and political oppression and exile.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><em>Memoir of an Amnesiac is a work of several dimensions: memoir, novel, roman \u00c3\u00a0 clef. In one facet it is an especially privileged and personal view of the Haitian journalist Jean Dominique, redoubtable until his assassination in the year 2000. In another, it is a sophisticated study of the paradoxical relationship between memory and fabrication. In a third, it is a veiled but vivid account of life under a regime which suppresses not only action and speech but also thought. This fluent translation by Irline Fran\u00c3\u00a7ois has made a somewhat challenging French text not only accessible but even seductive to American readers.<\/em>\u00e2\u201d\u20acMadison Smartt Bell, professor of English, Goucher College, author of\u00c2\u00a0<em>Toussaint Louverture: A Biography\u00c2\u00a0<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">305 pp., softcover, 6 x 9 inches.\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Cat. #:\u00c2\u00a0<\/strong>B477<strong>\u00c2\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>ISBN #:\u00c2\u00a0<\/strong>9781584324732<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":1117,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[30],"product_tag":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-318","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"product_cat-literature","7":"product_shipping_class-shipping","9":"first","10":"instock","11":"taxable","12":"shipping-taxable","13":"purchasable","14":"product-type-simple"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/caribbeanstudiespress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/product\/318","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/caribbeanstudiespress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/product"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/caribbeanstudiespress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/product"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caribbeanstudiespress.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=318"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caribbeanstudiespress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/caribbeanstudiespress.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_brand","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caribbeanstudiespress.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fproduct_brand&post=318"},{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caribbeanstudiespress.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fproduct_cat&post=318"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caribbeanstudiespress.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fproduct_tag&post=318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}