Taboo or not Taboo? Janet Frame’s Autobiography
In Janet Frame’s autobiography, taboos refer mainly to the writer’s youth. As a child, Frame discovers all the words and things which are forbidden, particularly when they are related to sex, illness and death. Her father’s remedies are formidable. Her mother resorts to euphemisms, clichés or silenc...
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| Format: | Article ou chapitre numérique |
| Idioma: | Anglais |
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Commonwealth Essays and Studies
2024
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| Accés en línia: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| Sumari: | In Janet Frame’s autobiography, taboos refer mainly to the writer’s youth. As a child, Frame discovers all the words and things which are forbidden, particularly when they are related to sex, illness and death. Her father’s remedies are formidable. Her mother resorts to euphemisms, clichés or silence. For years, Frame remains the ‘no-trouble-at-all girl’ until she manages to reinscribe taboos in her emancipated form of writing. She then refuses clichés and asserts the prominence of parole over langue, thus liberating a self which had been for too long reduced to silence. |
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