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La voix et la honte : De la narration impossible à la possibilité narrative
The Voice and the Shame: From Impossible Narration to Narrative Possibility

Author(s): Ion Copoeru
Subject(s): Theory of Literature
Published by: Universitatea Babeş-Bolyai
Keywords: Shame; Voice; Exclusion; Destitution; Standing in for (the other).

Summary/Abstract: Seeing shame as the consciousness of a person who has been rejected by the group to which she belongs, this paper aims at clarifying the experience of shame and its reversal. The two stories being discussed here are setting the marks for a passage from destitution to restitution, from impossible narration to the narrative possibility. Their main idea is that the description of the experience of shame cannot be detached from either the power of self-expression of the persons concerned, or from that of the standing in for (the other) of their peers.

  • Issue Year: 2016
  • Issue No: 30
  • Page Range: 148-158
  • Page Count: 11
  • Language: French
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