“Not Entirely on His Side”: The Assumption of Sexed Subjectivity in Alice Munro’s “Boys and Girls”
The enigma of sexual difference is the nodal point of Alice Munro’s “Boys and Girls” (1968). The Lacanian concept of sexuation, which defines the positions of ‘man’ and ‘woman’ as belonging to discordant logical structures, will serve to illuminate the complex path of the unnamed female protagonist...
Main Author: | Jennifer MURRAY |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Laboratoire d’Etudes et de Recherches sur le Monde Anglophone (LERMA)
2014-12-01
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Series: | E-REA |
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Online Access: | http://journals.openedition.org/erea/4031 |
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