Performing the Void: The Violence of the Unassimilated in Some Contemporary British Narratives

The article addresses aspects of the vulnerable text and of textual vulnerability as expressed in fictional representations of trauma. More specifically, it focuses on the violence of a writing that swells up to indirectly evoke and perform the unbearable and unassimilated traumatic event. To do so,...

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Main Author: Jean-Michel Ganteau
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Centre de Recherche "Texte et Critique de Texte" 2017-03-01
Series:Sillages Critiques
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Online Access:http://journals.openedition.org/sillagescritiques/4917