Pathologie sans pathos dans War Dances de Sherman Alexie

This article explores how Sherman Alexie uses writing as a therapy and humor as a recurrent diversion and displacement to confront illness. The author develops strategies of deviation and deflation to counter pathos, resorting to various literary devices to ward off suffering in a holistic vision of...

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Glavni avtor: Paillot, Patricia
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spelling cairn-RFEA_143_0034RFEARevue française d’études américaines https://shs.cairn.info/revue-francaise-d-etudes-americaines-2015-2-page-34?lang=fr https://doi.org/10.3917/rfea.143.0034 Pathologie sans pathos dans War Dances de Sherman Alexie Paillot, Patricia2016 décalagedétournementdiversionguerrehumourlégèretémétamorphosepathologierésistancesilencesurvietraumatismetumeurfre Revue française d’études américaines | 143 | 2 | 2016-01-04 | p. 34-44 | 0397-7870 RFEA_14351 This article explores how Sherman Alexie uses writing as a therapy and humor as a recurrent diversion and displacement to confront illness. The author develops strategies of deviation and deflation to counter pathos, resorting to various literary devices to ward off suffering in a holistic vision of life. If the blending of joy and pain underpins War Dances in a war waged against oneself, fiction and rhetoric remain the most powerful instruments against traumatic experiences, and humor the most efficient tool to avoid self-centeredness.Cairn free access
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topic décalage
détournement
diversion
guerre
humour
légèreté
métamorphose
pathologie
résistance
silence
survie
traumatisme
tumeur
spellingShingle décalage
détournement
diversion
guerre
humour
légèreté
métamorphose
pathologie
résistance
silence
survie
traumatisme
tumeur
Paillot, Patricia
Pathologie sans pathos dans War Dances de Sherman Alexie
topic_facet décalage
détournement
diversion
guerre
humour
légèreté
métamorphose
pathologie
résistance
silence
survie
traumatisme
tumeur
description This article explores how Sherman Alexie uses writing as a therapy and humor as a recurrent diversion and displacement to confront illness. The author develops strategies of deviation and deflation to counter pathos, resorting to various literary devices to ward off suffering in a holistic vision of life. If the blending of joy and pain underpins War Dances in a war waged against oneself, fiction and rhetoric remain the most powerful instruments against traumatic experiences, and humor the most efficient tool to avoid self-centeredness.
author Paillot, Patricia
author_facet Paillot, Patricia
author_sort Paillot, Patricia
title Pathologie sans pathos dans War Dances de Sherman Alexie
title_short Pathologie sans pathos dans War Dances de Sherman Alexie
title_full Pathologie sans pathos dans War Dances de Sherman Alexie
title_fullStr Pathologie sans pathos dans War Dances de Sherman Alexie
title_full_unstemmed Pathologie sans pathos dans War Dances de Sherman Alexie
title_sort pathologie sans pathos dans war dances de sherman alexie
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