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Narrative memory, language and the afterlives of slavery. Distinguish a character’s recollection, a narrator’s arrangement and a historical claim.

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• How does a story make memory present without making it a simple record?

  coreIntroduction or preface and opening chapter. Record the edition and translator before reading.

  Narrative memory, language and the afterlives of slavery. Distinguish a character’s recollection, a narrator’s arrangement and a historical claim.

Ideas and questions

Read background definitions when a term blocks the argument. Then return to the source and reconstruct its claim in your own words.

Read alongside, read against