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19 juillet 2016
- doi: 10.4000/books.pur.30516
- isbn: 9782868473851
- eisbn: 9782753545670
https://www.openedition.org/12554 , info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
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Margaret Atwood postmodernisme utopie dystopie littérature de langue anglaise LIT004080 Literature (General) DSBSujets proches
Handwriting Chirography Testimony World literature Western literature (Western countries) Belles-lettres Self-expression Sketch, Literary Literary sketchCiter ce document
Jagna Oltarzewska, « Strategies for bearing witness: testimony as construct in Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale », Presses universitaires de Rennes, ID : 10.4000/books.pur.30516
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In an essay dating from 1980, entitled “An End to Audience”, Atwood invests the writer with conspicuous and unusual powers. Far from being a mere vehicle for self-expression or a passing distraction, writing has a distinctly moral purpose : it is an intervention, an event rather than a commentary, a privileged means of “bearing witness”, an attestation to “the disaster which is the world”, As witness, the writer or narrator is faced with the task of securing belief in her fictional universe, ...