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14 août 2015
- doi: 10.4000/ejas.11092
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diary elegy grief hybridism identification melancholy memoir mourning. Antoine Compagnon Arthur W. Frank Jahan Ramazani Joyce Carol Oates Judith Butler Nouri Gana Paul John Eakin Peter Brooks Peter Homans Peter M. Sacks Pierre Bayard Robert A. Niemeyer Roland Barthes Sigmund Freud Tammy Clewell Tanya L. TrombleSujets proches
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Pascale Antolin, « Hybridism and Self-Reconstruction in Joyce Carol Oates’s A Widow’s Story », European journal of American studies, ID : 10.4000/ejas.11092
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This article analyzes Joyce Carol Oates’s hybridism in her 2011 memoir, A Widow’s Story, as a powerful means of self-assertion and self-reconstruction. It suggests that to write about her painful experience of bereavement Oates resorts to hybridism—generic, narrative and typographic in particular—as it is both a characteristic of her fiction and a means of dramatizing her experience. This hybridism helps her not only express her emotional “derangement” but also recover her identity as a writer. Thus her narrative manifests confusion and continuity, chaos and control, inconsolability and consolation at one and the same time.