Echoes of History, Shadowed Identities : Rewriting Alterity in J. M. Coetzee's Foe and Marina Warner's Indigo.
Title:
Echoes of History, Shadowed Identities : Rewriting Alterity in J. M. Coetzee's Foe and Marina Warner's Indigo.
Author:
Chivite de Leon, Maria-Jose.
ISBN:
9783035100327
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (261 pages)
Series:
Spanish Perspectives on English and American Literature, Communication and Culture ; v.2
Spanish Perspectives on English and American Literature, Communication and Culture
Contents:
Table of Contents -- Introduction ix -- 1. Intertextuality and Alterity 1 -- 1.1 Rewriting Alterity: Intertextualist Approaches 5 -- 1.1.1 Mikhail Bakhtin, and Bakhtin According to Julia Kristeva 6 -- 1.1.2 Intertextuality, Alterity and Deconstruction: Roland Barthes's Pleasure of Infinite Texts 13 -- 2. Rewriting the Other (of) Representation 17 -- 2.1 Rewriting the Subject: Subject of/to Alterity 17 -- 2.1.1 Encompassing Alterity: From the Death of the Author to Rewriting the Subject's Ontology 17 -- 2.1.2 Figuring Alterity: Paradoxical and Multi-Differential Subjects 23 -- 2.2 Rewriting History 37 -- 3. Foe: Mirrors of History, Alienations of Identity 47 -- 3.1 Mirror-Stories & History's Mirages: Historical Alterities 51 -- 3.2 Othered Authors: Representation and Power 72 -- 3.3 Subject to/in Process, Subject to/of Alterity 86 -- 3.4 Back to the Island: Rewriting Alterity 105 -- 4. Indigo: Of Fairy Tales, Myths and History 117 -- 4.1 Narrative Rituals and Historical Metamorphoses: Indigo's Dialogical Structure 117 -- 4.2 Cartography and Rewriting: Other Maps of History 124 -- 4.2.1 Coloured Maps: New Cartographic Gazes 124 -- 4.2.2 Calibanic Cartographies: The Body, the Monstrous Other and the Female Other 135 -- 4.2.3 Remapping Identity & Authorship: Cartographies of Magic Transformations 161 -- 4.2.3.1 Serafine 168 -- 4.2.3.2 Miranda 189 -- Epilogue 225 -- References 229.
Abstract:
This book addresses the recovery of submerged memories, loss and trauma in self-avowed intertextual fiction, while simultaneously exposing the tensions and untenability of any stable figuration of alterity. Otherness thus posits a liminal and largely transversal site of resistance to monological representations of Western identity, history and canon, which are now displayed inherently crossbred and built on the occulting and alienating of difference. With this in view, the author carries out a close reading of the works and scholarly statements of J. M. Coetzee and Marina Warner by taking as the point of departure the intertextualist approaches that most attend to the phenomenon of alterity against the critical discourses of modern representation. Fully installed in the revision of canon policies, Foe and Indigo re-read Eurocentric institutionalised forms of othering at the same time they posit new and suggestive rehearsals of identity languages via literature. Intertextual fiction thus turns out to be a powerful instrument to render alterity visible and agential in the discourses of reality. Ultimately, alterity is enabled to speak and invite social change and ethical awareness without denying the history of its alienation.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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