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- Title
Crisis of the responsible word: Bakhtin, dialogism & the postcolonial memoir.
- Authors
Chakrabarti, Paromita
- Abstract
Juxtaposing the postcolonial in-betweenness of critical discourse with Bakhtin's idea of hybridized, collusive and hidden dialogicality, the postcolonial memoir can be read as the self's mapping of a paradigm shift in contemporary times. The postcolonial memoirs become a site of contested, unsettling and endless renegotiations. I shall read South Asian-American diasporic writer Meena Alexander's 1993 Fault Lines: A Memoir and the revised 2003 version as dialogic texts. Alexander's memoirs engage, contest and alter each other to disrupt the possibility of singular meanings and absolute truth. Instead, the texts offer a conflicting and incommensurate idea of the past and a fractured yet intensely interconnected vision of the present.
- Subjects
BAKHTINIAN analysis; LITERARY criticism; DIALOGISM (Literary analysis)
- Publication
Baltic Worlds, 2017, Vol 10, Issue 1/2, p82
- ISSN
2000-2955
- Publication type
Article