Voicing Inarticulate Childhoods in Troubled Times: Barry Hines’s A Kestrel for A Knave (1968), James Kelman’s Kieron Smith, Boy (2008) and Stephen Kelman’s Pigeon English (2011)
In his study on ordinary lives, precarious lives, French philosopher Guillaume Le Blanc alludes to the paradoxical necessity of finding a voice for the voiceless. Social vulnerability is synchronous with linguistic vulnerability so that precarious lives are sanctioned by inarticulacy. By selecting n...
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Presses Universitaires de la Méditerranée
2017-10-01
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| Series: | Études Britanniques Contemporaines |
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| Online Access: | http://journals.openedition.org/ebc/3832 |