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Altergrafia dhe autobiografia
Altergraphy and autobiography

Author(s): Agron Gashi
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Theoretical Linguistics
Published by: Univeristeti i Prishtinës, Fakulteti i Filologjisë
Keywords: altergraphy; autobiography; subjectivity; lecturing pronouns; I; the other;

Summary/Abstract: Altergraphy is writing for the other, it is complementary to autobiography. According to structuralist poetics, the autobiography puts its own self in the center of the text while on the periphery puts the other. Thus, escaping or returning to the center of the text does not question the boundaries of the text, but it is the opening of the genre by violating its 'rules'. This leads us to Derrida's question: What belongs inside and what belongs outside? However, the text retains its own categorial status, only being exposed more to trial verification, while weaves history (story) for the other. In contemporary autobiographical Albanian prose, the alterography is escaping from subjectivity for the sake of objectivity, but also because of prosopography of the other. The latter concept justifies some kind of alternating narrative, which is functionalized through lecturing pronouns. Is this not an introduction to the narrative grammar of the text, concretely of the Albanian autobiographical prose?! This remains to be proven through our research.

  • Issue Year: 2017
  • Issue No: 35
  • Page Range: 287 - 293
  • Page Count: 7
  • Language: Albanian