From a ?large morsel of meat? to ?passwords-in-flesh
Resistance through Representation of the Tortured Body in Labou Tansi's La vie et demie
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9250582 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Pascale Perraudin (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2005 |
| Volume | 36 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 72-84 |
| Publication date | 2005-06-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Research in African Literatures (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0034-5210 • E-ISSN: 1527-2044 |
| Publisher | Indiana University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.2979/ral.2005.36.2.72 |
| OpenAlex | W2026427296 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 12 |
In this essay, I evaluate the pertinence of representing the tortured body in Sony Labou Tansi's La vie et demie. I demonstrate how the visibility of the tortured, cut-up flesh becomes the stakes of a subjectivity that struggles to maintain and affirm its agency. The representation of violence and pain confers on the tortured body the power to inscribe itself as a subject in becoming. In this text, the confrontation with pain and its graphic representation subverts the threat of total incorporation and assimilation in that pain maintains the presence of a private, intimate space that defies the danger of effacement and annihilation
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