NARRATIVES OF SURVIVAL: INVISIBLE OPPRESSION AND RETALIATION IN JOYCE CAROL OATES’ MARYA: A LIFE
NARRATIVES OF SURVIVAL: INVISIBLE OPPRESSION AND RETALIATION IN JOYCE CAROL OATES’ MARYA: A LIFE
Author(s): Tamilmani Rathinasamy Nagalakshmi Kulamangalam ThiagarajanSubject(s): Studies of Literature, American Literature
Published by: Editura Universităţii de Vest din Timişoara / Diacritic Timisoara
Keywords: survival narrative; invisible oppression; fragmentation; gruesome reality; hyperreality; memory;
Summary/Abstract: Joyce Carol Oates, a postmodern American woman writer, has been featuring the narratives of survival in her works. In Marya: A Life, she attunes the void experienced by humans, and scrutinizes how survival is ensued from the remnants of disquietude. Marya, the protagonist, is as an archetype of the postmodern survivor, living in fragments. The novel discloses the post-traumatic phase of Marya’s life. It presents the invisible oppression and the tangential thoughts that condition her to behave submissively. This article attempts to study how the fragmentation facilitates her survival and how the retention of violence reinforces the efficacy of life.
Journal: B.A.S. British and American Studies
- Issue Year: 27/2021
- Issue No: 27
- Page Range: 231-239
- Page Count: 9
- Language: English