“THERE WAS A BLACK GAP WHERE THE DE HAD BEEN:” DISPOSSESSING DISCOURSE IN AIDAN HIGGINS’ “BALCONY OF EUROPE”
“There Was a Black Gap Where the DE Had Been”: Dispossessing Discourse in Aidan Higgins’ ”Balcony of Europe”. My paper attempts to explore a novel by Irish writer Aidan Higgins from the perspective of the so-called “ethical turn” in the study of narrative by arguing that both its form and its conte...
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“There Was a Black Gap Where the DE Had Been”: Dispossessing Discourse in Aidan Higgins’ ”Balcony of Europe”. My paper attempts to explore a novel by Irish writer Aidan Higgins from the perspective of the so-called “ethical turn” in the study of narrative by arguing that both its form and its content explicitly thematise the ethical risks of the first-person discourse when it comes to representing the other. Using Dorothy J. Hale’s notion of the voluntary “self-binding” fiction requires from the “responsible readers,” I examine the strategies through which Higgins pits the narrator’s failure to represent otherness against the imminent disintegration of the European landscape, history and identity under the pressures of a discourse of possession and rigid localisation. To these pressures, the text responds by suggesting the language of fiction has the potential to criticise and counteract possession as a model for identity through the effort it imposes on the readers to simultaneously exert and limit their individual freedom.
Rezumat. „În locul lui DE era o gaură neagră:” deposedarea discursului în “Balconul Europei” de Aidan Higgins. Lucrarea de față își propune lectura unui roman aparținând scriitorului irlandez Aidan Higgins din perspectiva „întoarcerii la etică” în studiul narațiunilor, pornind de la premisa că forma și conținutul acestuia pun explicit în temă riscurile etice ale discursului la persoana I în ceea ce privește reprezentarea alterității. Utilizând definiția dată de Dorothy J. Hale noțiunii de „autolimitare” impusă de roman cititorilor „responsabili,” lucrarea investighează strategiile prin care Higgins suprapune eșecul naratorului de a reprezenta alteritatea dezintegrării iminente a peisajului, istoriei și identității europene sub presiunea unui discurs al posesiei și al localizării rigide. Textul răspunde acestei presiuni prin sugestia că limbajul ficțional are potențialul de a critica și a se opune posesiei ca model identitar prin efortul cerut cititorului de a-și exercita și limita simultan libertatea.
Cuvinte cheie: etica narativă, “deposedare” lingvistică, reprezentare ficțională, alteritate.
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| spelling | doaj.art-7b321bd95df246288cebb89c25c7a2c22024-01-05T09:45:20ZdeuCluj University PressStudia Universitatis Babeş-Bolyai. Philologia1220-04842065-96522018-12-0163410.24193/subbphilo.2018.4.10“THERE WAS A BLACK GAP WHERE THE DE HAD BEEN:” DISPOSSESSING DISCOURSE IN AIDAN HIGGINS’ “BALCONY OF EUROPE”Petronia POPA PETRAR0Babeş-Bolyai University. E-mail: petronia.petrar@gmail.com “There Was a Black Gap Where the DE Had Been”: Dispossessing Discourse in Aidan Higgins’ ”Balcony of Europe”. My paper attempts to explore a novel by Irish writer Aidan Higgins from the perspective of the so-called “ethical turn” in the study of narrative by arguing that both its form and its content explicitly thematise the ethical risks of the first-person discourse when it comes to representing the other. Using Dorothy J. Hale’s notion of the voluntary “self-binding” fiction requires from the “responsible readers,” I examine the strategies through which Higgins pits the narrator’s failure to represent otherness against the imminent disintegration of the European landscape, history and identity under the pressures of a discourse of possession and rigid localisation. To these pressures, the text responds by suggesting the language of fiction has the potential to criticise and counteract possession as a model for identity through the effort it imposes on the readers to simultaneously exert and limit their individual freedom. Rezumat. „În locul lui DE era o gaură neagră:” deposedarea discursului în “Balconul Europei” de Aidan Higgins. Lucrarea de față își propune lectura unui roman aparținând scriitorului irlandez Aidan Higgins din perspectiva „întoarcerii la etică” în studiul narațiunilor, pornind de la premisa că forma și conținutul acestuia pun explicit în temă riscurile etice ale discursului la persoana I în ceea ce privește reprezentarea alterității. Utilizând definiția dată de Dorothy J. Hale noțiunii de „autolimitare” impusă de roman cititorilor „responsabili,” lucrarea investighează strategiile prin care Higgins suprapune eșecul naratorului de a reprezenta alteritatea dezintegrării iminente a peisajului, istoriei și identității europene sub presiunea unui discurs al posesiei și al localizării rigide. Textul răspunde acestei presiuni prin sugestia că limbajul ficțional are potențialul de a critica și a se opune posesiei ca model identitar prin efortul cerut cititorului de a-și exercita și limita simultan libertatea. Cuvinte cheie: etica narativă, “deposedare” lingvistică, reprezentare ficțională, alteritate. http://193.231.18.162/index.php/subbphilologia/article/view/3232narrative ethics, linguistic (dis)possession, fictional representation, otherness. |
| spellingShingle | Petronia POPA PETRAR “THERE WAS A BLACK GAP WHERE THE DE HAD BEEN:” DISPOSSESSING DISCOURSE IN AIDAN HIGGINS’ “BALCONY OF EUROPE” Studia Universitatis Babeş-Bolyai. Philologia narrative ethics, linguistic (dis)possession, fictional representation, otherness. |
| title | “THERE WAS A BLACK GAP WHERE THE DE HAD BEEN:” DISPOSSESSING DISCOURSE IN AIDAN HIGGINS’ “BALCONY OF EUROPE” |
| title_full | “THERE WAS A BLACK GAP WHERE THE DE HAD BEEN:” DISPOSSESSING DISCOURSE IN AIDAN HIGGINS’ “BALCONY OF EUROPE” |
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| title_full_unstemmed | “THERE WAS A BLACK GAP WHERE THE DE HAD BEEN:” DISPOSSESSING DISCOURSE IN AIDAN HIGGINS’ “BALCONY OF EUROPE” |
| title_short | “THERE WAS A BLACK GAP WHERE THE DE HAD BEEN:” DISPOSSESSING DISCOURSE IN AIDAN HIGGINS’ “BALCONY OF EUROPE” |
| title_sort | there was a black gap where the de had been dispossessing discourse in aidan higgins balcony of europe |
| topic | narrative ethics, linguistic (dis)possession, fictional representation, otherness. |
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