The Paradox of Cultural Self-representation in Paule Marshall's Praisesong For The Widow
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12701770 |
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| Authors | Olabode Ibironke (Michigan State University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2004 |
| Volume | 4 |
| Issue | 1-2 |
| Pages | 60-67 |
| Publication date | 2004-02-15 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Language and Intercultural Communication (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1470-8477 • E-ISSN: 1747-759X |
| Publisher | Routledge (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/14708470408668863 |
| OpenAlex | W2094648444 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 5 |
In this paper, I examine how Paule Marshall's Praisesong For The Widow, fictionalizes ‘migrations of the subject’. I argue that Praisesong explores the threshold between displacement, exile and prodigality. The paradox elaborated in this analysis is located precisely in how self-questioning ends up in self-affirmation; how conceptualisations of multiple subjectivities: migration or diaspora-isation decentre the subject, but also reinvents ‘the coveted “private” realm’ or home ‘as the zone of “noninterference” that is off-limits’
Archaeology · Diaspora · Displacement (psychology · Epistemology · Political science · Politics · Psychoanalysis · Realm · Representation (politics · Sociology · Subject (documents · Computer Science · Gender Studies · History · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies · Law · Philosophy · Psychology
| Highly cited | No |
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