Flawed Border Crossings in Life Writing by Fabienne Kanor and Gisèle Pineau
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12179264 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Natalie Edwards (0000-0002-7094-9890, The University of Adelaide, corresponding author), Commander Hogarth (0000-0003-0463-3238, University of South Australia, corresponding author), and Christopher Hogarth (University of South Australia) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 36 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 543-558 |
| Publication date | 2021-09-02 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | a/b Auto/Biography Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0898-9575 • E-ISSN: 2151-7290 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/08989575.2021.2045735 |
| OpenAlex | W4226343818 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 15 |
In this essay, the authors compares two works of life writing by two French-language writers of Caribbean origin: Gisèle Pineau and Fabienne Kanor. Both writers represent contemporary border crossings in their work and, importantly, contextualize these border crossings in terms of the history of the Caribbean and the legacy of slavery. Their texts are read through the lens of Michael Sheringham’s notion of the “autobiographical turning point”—an event in life writing that defines the life and the life writer, that changes the direction of the narrative, and that performs the acts of remembering and forgetting. The authors argue that these writers’ texts present border crossings as turning points in their narratives that are flawed or failures, and that these major events became spiraling rather than turning points
Aesthetics · Art · Event (particle physics · Forgetting · Life writing · Linguistics · Literature · Narrative · Period (music · Point (geometry · Sociology · Turning point · Caribbean and African Literature and Culture · History · Philosophy · Postcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies · Travel Writing and Literature
| Highly cited | No |
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