عنوان
پدید آورنده
موضوع
رده
کتابخانه
محل استقرار
شماره کتابشناسی ملی
شماره
LA120318
زبان اثر
زبان متن نوشتاري يا گفتاري و مانند آن
انگلیسی
عنوان و نام پديدآور
عنوان اصلي
Motherhood and the Measure of Truth in J.M. Coetzee's Age of Iron
نام عام مواد
[Article]
نام نخستين پديدآور
MAHRUKH KHAN
وضعیت نشر و پخش و غیره
محل نشرو پخش و غیره
Leiden
نام ناشر، پخش کننده و غيره
Brill
یادداشتهای مربوط به خلاصه یا چکیده
متن يادداشت
Ambiguous mother-figures dominate the fictional world of J.M Coetzee's novel Age of Iron. Sterility emerges as a central motif in the novel, corresponding to South Africa's apartheid history of racial hatred, discrimination, and violence. The struggling motherfigures are a product of the flawed times and emerge as symptomatic of social and cultural crisis. Elizabeth Curren, the novel's tortured first-person narrator, highlights the racially divided nation as socially, culturally, and morally impeded. Through her "stubborn will to give, to nourish," she engages in a struggle against the "scavengers of Cape Town": the "pitiless" heirs of a legacy of hate. Curren comes from a colonial history but seeks to decolonize her mind and voice as she writes a letter to her expatriate daughter, who, absent from the narrative, represents the need for change in values and historical perspective. Her strategic absence, significantly, communicates her incompatibility with the existing public and political discourse, thereby also suggesting an engagement with the future of ethics and aesthetics. While Elizabeth Curren's inscribed poetic plea for her daughter to return home self-reflexively acknowledges the constraints of a banal medium and provokes its lapses, there is also a need to realize what may as yet be un-semanticized. Elizabeth Curren aspires to redeem herself through the nurturing symbolism embodied in motherhood. Accordingly, and deploying Julia Kristeva's terminology, the essay argues for a return to a "maternal territory" where the semiotic process (an established communicative code of signs that determines our understanding of reality) is still in its intuitive and instinctual stage and allows Curren to transcend the constraints of her spoken medium. In Curren's case, the letter serves as a redrawn semantic map, possibly exceeding its established boundaries of signification and meaning.
مجموعه
تاريخ نشر
2016
توصيف ظاهري
247-274
عنوان
Matatu
شماره جلد
47/1
شماره استاندارد بين المللي پياييندها
1875-7421
اصطلاحهای موضوعی کنترل نشده
اصطلاح موضوعی
African Studies
اصطلاح موضوعی
Comparative Studies & World Literature
اصطلاح موضوعی
Criticism & Theory
اصطلاح موضوعی
Cultural History
اصطلاح موضوعی
Literature & Culture
اصطلاح موضوعی
Literature and Cultural Studies
اصطلاح موضوعی
Postcolonial Literature & Culture
نام شخص به منزله سر شناسه - (مسئولیت معنوی درجه اول )
مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده
MAHRUKH KHAN
شماره دستیابی
شماره بازیابی
10.1163/18757421-90000404
دسترسی و محل الکترونیکی
نام الکترونيکي
مطالعه متن کتاب وضعیت انتشار
فرمت انتشار
p
اطلاعات رکورد کتابشناسی
نوع ماده
[Article]
کد کاربرگه
275578
اطلاعات دسترسی رکورد
سطح دسترسي
a
تكميل شده
Y
