1. Baring Lives in ‘A Tale Told by Moonlight’ (1921): An Ambiguous Story of Vulnerability and Dispossession
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Leila Haghshenas, Etudes montpelliéraines du monde anglophone (EMMA), and Université Paul-Valéry - Montpellier 3 (UPVM)
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Moonlight ,bare lives ,[SHS.LITT]Humanities and Social Sciences/Literature ,Alterity ,media_common.quotation_subject ,vulnerability ,Vulnerability ,imperialisme ,‘A Tale Told by Moonlight’ ,altérité ,lcsh:PR1-9680 ,A Tale Told by Moonlight ,orientalism ,vulnérabilité ,invisibilité ,media_common ,Exposition (narrative) ,lcsh:English language ,dénudement ,lcsh:NX1-820 ,invisibility ,Art ,lcsh:Arts in general ,Leonard Woolf ,dispossession ,16. Peace & justice ,lcsh:English literature ,dépossession ,imperialism ,exposure ,orientalisme ,Orientalism ,lcsh:PE1-3729 ,alterity ,Humanities ,exposition - Abstract
Cet article a pour objet de mettre en lumière la vie précaire des personnages marginalisés dans « A Tale Told by Moonlight » de Leonard Woolf. Dans cette nouvelle, Leonard Woolf met en place et explore une méthode narrative singulière qui lui permet d’exposer sa vie passée en tant qu’administrateur colonial ainsi que celle des personnes vulnérables et dépossédées. Cet article explore les nombreuses modalités de l’exposition et de la dépossession dans ‘A Tale Told by Moonlight’ ainsi que la façon dont les normes d’invisibilité s’y forment et s’y développent et dont les vies y sont exposées et recréées. The present paper intends to bring to light the bare lives of the ignored and marginalised characters in Leonard Woolf’s short story ‘A Tale Told by Moonlight’. In the story, Leonard Woolf creates and explores a singular self-effacing and self-dispossessing narrative approach that enables him to expose elements of his own life as a colonial agent along with those of the vulnerable and dispossessed subalterns. Further than defining the various forms of dispossession at work in Woolf’s short story, the paper means to show how norms of invisibility are shaped and developed in Woolf’s short story and how lives are exposed and recreated.
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- 2017
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