Pat Barker’s The Silence of the Girls and the State of Exception
Pat Barker’s 2018 novel The Silence of the Girls revisits the Iliad to expose the unspoken tale of Briseis, Achilles’ captive. The novel explores Achilles’ wrath and Agamemnon’s decision in terms that recall Agamben’s definition of the state of exception. Rejecting romance, Barker revisits the Troja...
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| Language: | English |
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Presses Universitaires de la Méditerranée
2020-03-01
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| Series: | Études Britanniques Contemporaines |
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| Online Access: | http://journals.openedition.org/ebc/8286 |