Artikel
Clothing the spirit : Jackie Kay's fiction from "Trumpet" to "Wish I Was Here"
Verfasst von:
Arana, R. Victoria
info
in:
Women : a cultural review
London:
2009
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250 - 261 S.
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| Einrichtung: | Ariadne | Wien |
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| Verfasst von: | Arana, R. Victoria info |
| In: | Women : a cultural review |
| Jahr: | 2009 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
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| Literary characterisation, like all artistic representation of the human figure, has to some extent always involved dressing the body while referencing the person's underlying nakedness as a foil to the costume. In poem after poem and story after story, Jackie Kay has commented in provocative ways on the symbolic function of appearances. Many critics have examined how in Trumpet and other works Kay illustrates the way identity is performed and construed. Kay opens out the space between the characters' private spirits and their faades: identities variously described and ranging from a deliberately cultivated and projected image of the 'self' to a bathetic figuration projected unselfconsciously. When Kay examines self-fashioning and the problematics of the persona, she sounds a timely sub-theme: that people generally can neither fathom nor control the way others read them. In Wish I Was Here, Kay's emphasis rests—and more emphatically than ever before—on the question of creaturely authenticity. | |
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