Silenced Voices in Sebastian Faulks’s Novel Paris Echo
In the novel two individuals from dissimilar spatio-cultural backgrounds alternate in first-person narration. The voices are Hannah’s, a 31-year-old American postdoctoral researcher, who comes to Paris to investigate the empirical history of French women during the German Occupation, and Tariq’s, a...
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openedition-oai:revues.org:ebc_11178 https://doi.org/10.4000/ebc.11178 urn:doi:10.4000/ebc.11178 en https://journals.openedition.org/ebc/11178 2021-11-15T01:00:00Z info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess article info:eu-repo/semantics/article urn:handle:20.500.13089/febp https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ Silenced Voices in Sebastian Faulks’s Novel Paris Echo Études britanniques contemporaines Presses universitaires de la Méditerranée info:eu-repo/semantics/reference/issn/2271-5444 info:eu-repo/semantics/reference/issn/1168-4917 URI:https://journals.openedition.org/ebc Puschmann-Nalenz, Barbara mémoire roman historique empathie Sebastian Faulks migration France Occupation ambiguïté du visible conflits des histoires mise-en-abyme historical novel empathy Sebastian Faulks migration France Occupation collected memory ambiguous visibilisation contesting narratives frame narrative In the novel two individuals from dissimilar spatio-cultural backgrounds alternate in first-person narration. The voices are Hannah’s, a 31-year-old American postdoctoral researcher, who comes to Paris to investigate the empirical history of French women during the German Occupation, and Tariq’s, a nineteen-year-old Moroccan runaway. Hannah engages Tariq to assist her with interviews of witnesses still alive and translations of the recorded testimonies that were hardly ever raised to public awareness. The two narrators share the non-committal starting position that is for the American based on her scholarly approach from overseas and for Tariq on his adventurous youth, as on his ignorance of Europe and French (colonial) history. The question how to acknowledge the visibilised is addressed on several narrative and generational levels: in the embedded stories told at different times by the witnesses, and in the explorers’ response to the accounts they are confronted with in their dislocated situation. Dans le roman, deux individus issus de milieux spatio-culturels dissemblables alternent dans la narration à la première personne. Les voix sont celles de Hannah, une postdoctorante américaine de trente et un ans, qui vient à Paris pour enquêter sur l'histoire empirique des femmes françaises pendant l'occupation allemande, et celle de Tariq, un fugueur marocain de dix-neuf ans. Hannah engage Tariq pour l’aider à mener les entretiens avec les témoins encore vivants et les traductions des témoignages enregistrés qui n'ont pratiquement jamais été portés à la connaissance du public. Les deux narrateurs partagent une position de départ sans engagement, qui repose, pour l'Américaine, sur son approche érudite de l'étranger et, pour Tariq, sur sa jeunesse aventureuse, comme sur son ignorance de l'Europe et de l'histoire (coloniale) française. La question de la reconnaissance des visibilisés est abordée à plusieurs niveaux narratifs et générationnels : dans les récits enchâssés racontés à différentes époques par les témoins, et dans la réponse des explorateurs aux récits auxquels ils sont confrontés dans leur situation disloquée. |
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In the novel two individuals from dissimilar spatio-cultural backgrounds alternate in first-person narration. The voices are Hannah’s, a 31-year-old American postdoctoral researcher, who comes to Paris to investigate the empirical history of French women during the German Occupation, and Tariq’s, a nineteen-year-old Moroccan runaway. Hannah engages Tariq to assist her with interviews of witnesses still alive and translations of the recorded testimonies that were hardly ever raised to public awareness. The two narrators share the non-committal starting position that is for the American based on her scholarly approach from overseas and for Tariq on his adventurous youth, as on his ignorance of Europe and French (colonial) history. The question how to acknowledge the visibilised is addressed on several narrative and generational levels: in the embedded stories told at different times by the witnesses, and in the explorers’ response to the accounts they are confronted with in their dislocated situation. |
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Silenced Voices in Sebastian Faulks’s Novel Paris Echo |
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