(Another) Death in Paradise by https://padlet.com/ael14/epj1oldd2h9r0woz Made with ♥ en-us 2022-02-11 09:13:39 UTC 2022-02-11 09:25:13 UTC hello@padlet.com What do we learn from the paratext: dedication, epigraphs, preamble from l'ethnographe? ael14 https://padlet.com/ael14/epj1oldd2h9r0woz/wish/2042023843 2022-02-11 09:15:09 UTC https://padlet.com/ael14/epj1oldd2h9r0woz/wish/2042023843 Look at the Proces-verbal that opens novel (pp 17-21): how would you describe the language here? What lexical fields are in play? ael14 https://padlet.com/ael14/epj1oldd2h9r0woz/wish/2042026352 2022-02-11 09:16:57 UTC https://padlet.com/ael14/epj1oldd2h9r0woz/wish/2042026352 Reading Chamoiseau is (deliberately) challenging in terms of standard French, but also the 'well made novel' à la Zobel. Can you find instances of this postcolonial subversion of standard French/literary norms? ael14 https://padlet.com/ael14/epj1oldd2h9r0woz/wish/2042028778 2022-02-11 09:18:41 UTC https://padlet.com/ael14/epj1oldd2h9r0woz/wish/2042028778 What strikes you in the liste des témoins on pages 29-32? ael14 https://padlet.com/ael14/epj1oldd2h9r0woz/wish/2042030063 2022-02-11 09:19:36 UTC https://padlet.com/ael14/epj1oldd2h9r0woz/wish/2042030063 Theme of clash of cultures: French (written) officialdom, and the lives of ordinary Caribbeans. Find and note all the examples you can. What is Chamoiseau trying to tell us about the oral tradition? ael14 https://padlet.com/ael14/epj1oldd2h9r0woz/wish/2042032648 2022-02-11 09:21:25 UTC https://padlet.com/ael14/epj1oldd2h9r0woz/wish/2042032648