From Literacy to Literature


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'From Literacy to Literature' is a cultural history that draws a line between canonical ricardian writers and the school-books of their time.




Bulletin


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Mimola


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In Antoine Innocent's 1906 novel Mimola or the Story of a Casket, Mimola, daughter of Madame Georges, suffers from an incurable nervous disease. In desperation, Madame Georges goes on a pilgrimage to Ville-Bonheur in order to implore the African divinities to help her ailing daughter. She meets a cousin, whose son Léon, is suffering from a similar disorder. Léon rejects the voodoo beliefs, will sink into madness; ardently believing, Mimola will recover and be hounsi.