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Article: Bearing witness and transmitting memory in the works of Marie-Celie Agnant.
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- Quebec Studies
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- March 22, 2005
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... there should be no dead, silenced, forgotten foremothers among us, for it is they who provide us with a guide to a memory that will transform our forward motion. (Chancy, Searching for Safe Spaces 214)
... il voulut se faire voix, voix de tous ceux, qui, comme lui, se trouvaient poses sur un bout d'ile comme des pierres sur la route, voix de tous ceux qui jamais n'emergeront de l'absence, et dont la disparition ne fera jamais partie des cataclysmes. (Agnant, "Le vieil homme" 41-42)
The textualization of memory as it relates to an affirmation of origins and a reclaiming of voice has taken on a central role in the works of Marie-Celie Agnant, who was ...