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11 février 2022
- doi: 10.4000/books.pulm.11988
- isbn: 9782367812489
- eisbn: 9782367813981
https://www.openedition.org/12554 , info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
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Pellicer Ortín Silvia, « Writing and Loving: Strategies to Overcome Humbleness in Lynne Reid Banks’s Children at the Gate », Presses universitaires de la Méditerranée, ID : 10.4000/books.pulm.11988
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By applying narratological tools and theories on race, trauma and melancholia to the analysis of Banks’s Children at the Gate, this article aims at revealing that this novel represents the humble as an annulling and pathological status that can be overcome through two essential mechanisms: therapeutic writing and experiencing unselfish love towards the Other. Moreover, this novel illustrates how the humble emerges both as a motif denouncing stories of marginalisation and as an aesthetic category structuring narratives that endorse the repairing power of writing, allowing the humble to re-write themselves into love and agency.