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Type: | Journal article |
Title: | Flawed Border Crossings in Life Writing by Fabienne Kanor and Gisèle Pineau |
Author: | Edwards, N. Hogarth, A.C. |
Citation: | Auto/Biography Studies, 2022; 36(3):543-558 |
Publisher: | Taylor & Francis (Routledge) |
Issue Date: | 2022 |
ISSN: | 0898-9575 2151-7290 |
Statement of Responsibility: | Natalie Edwards and Christopher Hogarth |
Abstract: | In this essay, the authors compares two works of life writing by two French-language writers of Caribbean origin: Gisèle Pineau and Fabienne Kanor. Both writers represent contemporary border crossings in their work and, importantly, contextualize these border crossings in terms of the history of the Caribbean and the legacy of slavery. Their texts are read through the lens of Michael Sheringham’s notion of the “autobiographical turning point”—an event in life writing that defines the life and the life writer, that changes the direction of the narrative, and that performs the acts of remembering and forgetting. The authors argue that these writers’ texts present border crossings as turning points in their narratives that are flawed or failures, and that these major events became spiraling rather than turning points. |
Keywords: | border crossing; French Caribbean; life writing; turning points |
Description: | Published online: 05 Apr 2022 |
Rights: | © 2022 The Autobiography Society |
DOI: | 10.1080/08989575.2021.2045735 |
Grant ID: | http://purl.org/au-research/grants/arc/DP190102863 |
Published version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/08989575.2021.2045735 |
Appears in Collections: | French publications |
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