“Tending the ovens”: Janet Frame’s Politics of Language
This article argues that Janet Frame’s fiction does not have a “politics” in the sense of a unitary position on race or war or colonisation. However the stories in The Lagoon develop a method by which the reader is forced to engage with ethical and political issues worked into familiar language. Fra...
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| Publicado no: | URI:https://journals.openedition.org/ces, |
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| Formato: | Article ou chapitre numérique |
| Idioma: | Anglais |
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Commonwealth Essays and Studies
2022
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| Acesso em linha: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| Resumo: | This article argues that Janet Frame’s fiction does not have a “politics” in the sense of a unitary position on race or war or colonisation. However the stories in The Lagoon develop a method by which the reader is forced to engage with ethical and political issues worked into familiar language. Frame’s use of ordinary language, even clichés, as much as her dense symbolism contains interpretive richness. |
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