De la ventriloquie au trauma
This article aims at showing that imitation, far from being only a theme that pervades American literature from the start (Charles Brockden Brown, Ambrose Bierce) to its most recent developments (DeLillo), constitutes a defining structure. Drawing extensively from Freud, but also to a lesser extent...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Centre de Recherche "Texte et Critique de Texte"
2012-01-01
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| Series: | Sillages Critiques |
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| Online Access: | http://journals.openedition.org/sillagescritiques/2821 |
| Summary: | This article aims at showing that imitation, far from being only a theme that pervades American literature from the start (Charles Brockden Brown, Ambrose Bierce) to its most recent developments (DeLillo), constitutes a defining structure. Drawing extensively from Freud, but also to a lesser extent from Derrida, this paper, jointly interrogating the figure of the biloquist villain in Wieland, the picture of the aftermath of the Civil War in “Chickamauga” and the 9-11 icon of destruction in Falling Man, endeavors to highlight the parallel and converging lines of psychoanalysis and literature as regards the representation of trauma. |
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| ISSN: | 1272-3819 1969-6302 |