Published in 2007 by The Feminist Press at the City University of New York
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Translation copyright © 2007 by Marjolijn de Jager
Afterword copyright © 2006 by Michelle Mielly
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Originally published in French under the title La mémoire amputée by Wéréwéré Liking. Copyright © 2004 by NEI Abidjan. ISBN: 2-84487-236-0 NEI. All rights reserved for all countries.
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Werewere Liking, 1950-
[Mémoire amputée. English]
The amputated memory : mothers Naja and aunts Roz : a song-novel / by Werewere Liking ; translated from the French by Marjolijn de Jager.
p. cm.
ISBN-13: 978-1-55861-877-0
I. de Jager, Marjolijn. II. Title.
PQ3989.2.L54M4513 2007
843’.914—dc22
2007021440
This publication was made possible, in part, by the Carnegie Corporation of New York.
Text and cover design by Lisa Force
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