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- Title
(Im)Possible Representations: The Place of Negativity in Autobiographical Writing.
- Authors
Livescu, Simona
- Abstract
This essay analyzes the existence of any apophatic manifestations written into autobiographical literature. Two contemporary autobiographical texts written in French by Assia Djebar entitled "Fantasia: An Algerian Cavalcade" and Annie Ernaux's "A Woman's Story" have been given consideration in order to detect the possible existence of a constant negative autobiographical continuum, and this presence will be compared to absence as well as visibility as against invisibility. Considering both texts on a linguistic level, many differences are said to have surfaced but despite these differences, both have allegedly exhibited common representational strategies, and these are part of the negative-apophatic understanding of the self.
- Subjects
LITERATURE studies; HUMANITIES education; FANTASIA: An Algerian Cavalcade (Book); WOMAN'S Story, A (Book : Ernaux); DJEBAR, Assia, 1936-2015; ERNAUX, Annie, 1940-; NEGATIVE theology; NEGATIVITY (Philosophy); AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL fiction
- Publication
Comparatist, 2007, Vol 31, p50
- ISSN
0195-7678
- Publication type
Literary Criticism
- DOI
10.1353/com.2007.0009