Many writers started their professional lives in very diverse fields before embracing writing, or on the contrary have turned away from writing. The present volume seeks to explore the complex relationship between that 'other life' and writing. The aim is to determine whether a writer's 'other life' appears in, influences or even shapes his/her work, and to what extent. What is the part of gestation and that of rupture? A diversity of writers is examined: Patrick Chamoiseau, J. M. Coetzee, Jan J. Dominique, Janet Frame, Amitav Ghosh, L. K. Johnson, Wilson Harris, Dany Laferrière, Yannick Lahens, NourbeSe Philip, Emmelie Prophète, Arundhati Roy, Edward Said, but also Bartolomé de las Casas and E. L. Grant Watson. Unpublished autobiographical essays and a poem are included, especially written for the volume by Marie-Célie Agnant, Cyril Dabydeen and Fred D'Aguiar.
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- Introductory pages
- Table of contents
- Introduction
- Wilson Harris: Land Surveyor
- Wilson Harris: the Writer as Surveyor
- ’Parallel Lines’ and Lives: Edward Said as a Musician and Critic
- L’écrivain-journaliste dans la fiction Haïtienne ultra-contemporaine
- ’I came to poetry through politics’ -Linton Kwesi Johnson’s Other Lives
- A Blueprint of the Self: Architecture, Memory, and Politics in Arundhati Roy’s The God of Small Things
- Rewriting the Archive: Arundhati Roy’s (An)Other Life in The God of Small Things
- Anthropology in the Writing: Amitav Ghosh’s Craft of the Novel
- Unimaginable Border Crossings in the Early Western Australian Fiction of E. L. Grant Watson
- The Proto-postcolonial Colonizer: Bartolomé de las Casas and the Turn from Slaver to Saver
- The Works of Patrick Chamoiseau: Writing in Palimpsest?
- M. NourbeSe Philip’s Poetics of Justice: Reacquiring the Tongue, (W)ri(gh)ting African-Caribbean History
- From Control to Creativity: Teaching and Janet Frame
- From Computer Programmer to Novelist: J. M. Coetzee’s Other Life over the Sea
- Psychiatric Nursing and Me
- Un seul souffle, la même vie, tant de vies
- Abstracts
- Bio-bibliographical notices
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