Charming Fictions and Guilty Repetitions: Authorship Other(-)wise by Calixthe Beyala and Carol Shields
Carson, Emily Charlotte Pederson
This item is only available for download by members of the University of Illinois community. Students, faculty, and staff at the U of I may log in with your NetID and password to view the item. If you are trying to access an Illinois-restricted dissertation or thesis, you can request a copy through your library's Inter-Library Loan office or purchase a copy directly from ProQuest.
Permalink
https://hdl.handle.net/2142/87295
Description
Title
Charming Fictions and Guilty Repetitions: Authorship Other(-)wise by Calixthe Beyala and Carol Shields
Author(s)
Carson, Emily Charlotte Pederson
Issue Date
2007
Doctoral Committee Chair(s)
Blake, Nancy
Department of Study
Comparative Literature
Discipline
Comparative Literature
Degree Granting Institution
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Degree Name
Ph.D.
Degree Level
Dissertation
Keyword(s)
Women's Studies
Language
eng
Abstract
My comparative analysis disrupts the notion that Shields is a compliant immigrant whose focus on women's domestic lives fails to address broad social issues. It similarly calls into question Beyala's contrary reputation as a provocative immigrant who refuses integration and is concerned primarily with self-promotion. These two very different writers together theorize an authorship for the age of transnationalism that relies on gesture, repetition and a manipulative autobiographical inscription to respond to some of the contemporary challenges posed by geopolitics and its cultural divides.
Use this login method if you
don't
have an
@illinois.edu
email address.
(Oops, I do have one)
IDEALS migrated to a new platform on June 23, 2022. If you created
your account prior to this date, you will have to reset your password
using the forgot-password link below.
