“One Person, Two Names”: Confluence in Jackie Kay’s Writing
This article examines the many ways in which Jackie Kay’s writing is about confluence: as a Scottish writer with a Nigerian father, as a lesbian poet, as an adopted child, she is situated at the crossroads of our cultural, societal, racial landmarks. Looking more precisely at her latest collection o...
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openedition-oai:revues.org:etudesecossaises_1221 https://doi.org/10.4000/etudesecossaises.1221 urn:doi:10.4000/etudesecossaises.1221 en https://journals.openedition.org/etudesecossaises/1221 2017-03-31T02:00:00Z info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess article info:eu-repo/semantics/article urn:handle:20.500.13089/g5up All rights reserved “One Person, Two Names”: Confluence in Jackie Kay’s Writing Études écossaises UGA Éditions - Université Grenoble Alpes info:eu-repo/semantics/reference/issn/1969-6337 info:eu-repo/semantics/reference/issn/1240-1439 URI:https://journals.openedition.org/etudesecossaises Pittin-Hédon, Marie-Odile identity poetry Jackie Kay middle ground confluence dislocation short stories memoir identité poésie Jackie Kay confluence dislocation nouvelle mémoires This article examines the many ways in which Jackie Kay’s writing is about confluence: as a Scottish writer with a Nigerian father, as a lesbian poet, as an adopted child, she is situated at the crossroads of our cultural, societal, racial landmarks. Looking more precisely at her latest collection of short stories Reality, Reality, as well as to her memoir Red Dust Road and some of her poetry, this article looks at the way Kay, by starting from duality, delineates a territory for the definition of the self which she calls the “middle ground” and which, as she explains in her memoir, has to be constructed with a voice that knows no precedent; it is also a voice that fuses together reality and fiction. Kay’s fiction and her poetry probe the depth of our notion of reality, and of “the windy place” our identity sometimes stems from. Finally, the space of confluence for Kay is also a space of writing, which helps her explore what she calls “the road not taken”. Cet article examine les différentes formes de confluence qui constituent l’écriture de Jackie Kay. Auteur écossais dont le père est nigérian, poète lesbienne, enfant adoptée, Kay se situe aux confins de nos repères culturels, sociétaux et raciaux. En partant de son dernier recueil de nouvelles Reality, Reality, de ses mémoires Red Dust Road et de certains poèmes, cet article se penche sur la façon dont Kay, en partant de la notion de dualité, trace un territoire identitaire qu’elle nomme « the middle ground ». Ce territoire, ainsi qu’elle le déclare dans ses mémoires, postule une voix qui ne connaît aucun précédent ; c’est également une voix qui mêle réel et fiction. Les œuvres de Kay sondent les profondeurs de la notion identitaire, de ce qu’elle nomme « the windy place » dont elle procède. L’espace d’écriture qu’elle bâtit l’aide ultimement à explorer ce qu’elle décrit comme « the road not taken ». |
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This article examines the many ways in which Jackie Kay’s writing is about confluence: as a Scottish writer with a Nigerian father, as a lesbian poet, as an adopted child, she is situated at the crossroads of our cultural, societal, racial landmarks. Looking more precisely at her latest collection of short stories Reality, Reality, as well as to her memoir Red Dust Road and some of her poetry, this article looks at the way Kay, by starting from duality, delineates a territory for the definition of the self which she calls the “middle ground” and which, as she explains in her memoir, has to be constructed with a voice that knows no precedent; it is also a voice that fuses together reality and fiction. Kay’s fiction and her poetry probe the depth of our notion of reality, and of “the windy place” our identity sometimes stems from. Finally, the space of confluence for Kay is also a space of writing, which helps her explore what she calls “the road not taken”. |
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