Resurgences of the Extra-Textual and Metatextual in Jane Urquhart’s The Stone Carvers
This paper rests on and extends a previous investigation of a poetics of mutation and metamorphosis at the heart of Jane Urquhart’s oeuvre. Urquhart reconfigures the persona of the migrant, who is not only transformed or “translated,” but also transforms his or her new world by an act which in The S...
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| Formáid: | Article ou chapitre numérique |
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Commonwealth Essays and Studies
2022
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| Rochtain ar líne: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| Achoimre: | This paper rests on and extends a previous investigation of a poetics of mutation and metamorphosis at the heart of Jane Urquhart’s oeuvre. Urquhart reconfigures the persona of the migrant, who is not only transformed or “translated,” but also transforms his or her new world by an act which in The Stone Carvers interestingly resurges as a migration in reverse. In this essay, I foreground the novel’s sites of resurgence, in which ancestral knowledges and arcane skills reappear as reconfigured correspondences between interdependent continents and cultures. I argue that the resurgences of the extra-textual world go beyond the referential dynamics of realism, and serve to relocate and reinscribe axiologies and agencies. My argument underscores Urquhart’s double exploration of migration and transmutation, which metatextually overcodes the migration across the world with the process of migration from world to book, and from story to page. |
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