Le temps éclaté : Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? De Jeanette Winterson

This article reads Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? in the light of Oranges Are not the Only Fruit. To do so, it relies on the temporal orientation of trauma theory and tries to demonstrate how Winterson’s oeuvre as a whole is dominated by the workings of afterwardsness, a category that is als...

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Main Author: Jean-Michel Ganteau
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Language:English
Published: Centre de Recherche "Texte et Critique de Texte" 2015-07-01
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Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/sillagescritiques/4229
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Le temps éclaté : Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? De Jeanette Winterson
Sillages Critiques
ethics
autobiography
trauma
afterwardsness
metalepsis
spiral
title Le temps éclaté : Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? De Jeanette Winterson
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