Naslov
"Gayl Jones's Corregidora :the black woman as a subject of history"

Autori
Šesnić, Jelena

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Radovi u zbornicima skupova, cjeloviti rad (in extenso), znanstveni

Izvornik
The Power of Language: A Collection of Essays / Breivik, Leiv Egil and Orm Overland - Oslo : Novus Press, 2005, 153-64

Skup
The Power of Language

Mjesto i datum
Bergen, Norveška, 04.05.2005. - 08.05.2005

Vrsta sudjelovanja
Predavanje

Vrsta recenzije
Međunarodna recenzija

Ključne riječi
Gayl Jones; povijest; tijelo; jezik; performativ; izvedba
(history; body; language; performative; performance)

Sažetak
Jones's 1975 neo-slave novel seems to be specific in the ways it uses and departs from generic expectations. Its strategy is, on one hand, to recuperate the black female body as a site of enunciative authority, and, on the other, to demonstrate how narrative performance based on the body can become entangled with the commodification of the body for the purposes of representing history. Jones attempts to show how performative speech-acts, such as narration, oral forms, the blues may present a new, and potentially more empowering, strategy for the speaking subject who is struggling to emerge through language. This aspect of the speech-act theory then can be seen as a segment of a wider phenomenon of performativity as it engages the production of historical discourse through the performance of witnessing, whereby the body and language are brought to work together.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Filologija

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