« My mother called me Silver. I was born part precious metal part pirate » : nomination et appel(lation) dans Lighthousekeeping et dans la fiction de Jeanette Winterson

Starting from the suggestions ‘packed’ in the first lines of Lighthouseekeeping, this paper examines the paradoxes that surround the question of naming in the novel and in Jeanette Winterson’s œuvre as a whole. In a fictional world which foregrounds the necessity to invent oneself, naming does not c...

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Main Author: Pascale Tollance
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Presses Universitaires de la Méditerranée 2014-06-01
Series:Études Britanniques Contemporaines
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Online Access:http://journals.openedition.org/ebc/1262