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Thresholds: A ‘Complete’ Table of the Borrowings in Yambo Ouologuem’s Le Devoir de violence, and Why They Matter

Av Christopher L. Miller

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Recent research has revealed that the borrowings in Yambo Ouologuem’s epochal novel Le Devoir de violence (Bound to Violence) are far more extensive than was previously thought. Accused of plagiarism, Ouologuem quit the Parisian literary world and returned to a definitive silence in Mali. This book attempts to provide both a complete table of the borrowings in Le Devoir de Violence and a new theory of their meaning. Miller dispels the myth that the borrowings are minor, negligible, or criminal; he argues that they are artful “thresholds,” openings to a profound reconsideration of African history. Ouologuem set up this system of borrowings as a way to invite readers down unexpected paths of meaning. The borrowings are not mere stunts; they are inseparable from Ouologuem’s radical revision of African history and his rejection of Negritude. The table of borrowings in part three of this book will serve as a resource for readers and scholars.
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Christopher L. Miller is the Frederick Clifford Ford Professor of French and African American Studies, emeritus, at Yale University. His previous books include Blank Darkness: Africanist Discourse in French (Chicago); The French Atlantic Triangle: Literature and Culture of the Slave Trade (Duke); and Impostors: Literary Hoaxes and Cultural Authenticity (Chicago).

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"Thresholds of Meaning explores a range of complex historical and social questions pertaining to cultural production, consecration, dissemination, reception, and retrieval. Together, these questions promise to nourish engaging conversations around contemporary debates, while also improving our capacity to evaluate how knowledge will continue to be recorded and transmitted in new and unforeseen ways along the connected pathways of twenty-first century existence." Dominic Thomas, Madeleine Letessier Professor of French, UCLA

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