‘Writing back’: contemporary re-visionary fiction
2006; Taylor & Francis; Volume: 20; Issue: 3 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1080/09502360600828984
ISSN1470-1308
Autores Tópico(s)Irish and British Studies
ResumoClick to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Notes 1 Doris Lessing, Shikasta (London: Cape, 1979), Preface: 'Some Remarks', p. ix. 2 Steven Connor, The English Novel in History 1950–1995 (London: Routledge, 1996), p. 134. Connor is partly referring here to Margaret Scanlan, Traces of Another Time: History and Politics in Postwar British Fiction (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1990). 3 Graham Swift, Waterland (1983 revised edtn, London: Picador, 1992). 4 Raymond Williams, Keywords (London: Fontana/Croom Helm, 1976), under 'History', p. 119. 5 See Richard Evans, In Defence of History (London: Granta, 1997). 6 Sheila Rowbotham, Hidden from History: 300 Years of Women's Oppression and the Fight Against It (London: Pluto Press, 1973). 7 Michael Dash, 'Marvellous Realism: The Way Out of Negritude' 1974, The Post-Colonial Studies Reader, eds Bill Ashcroft, Gareth Griffiths and Helen Tiffin (London: Routledge, 1995), pp. 199–200. 8 Salman Rushdie, Midnight's Children (1981 London: Picador/Pan Books, 1982), p. 421, my emphases. 9 Raymond Williams, 'People of the Black Mountains: John Barnie interviews Raymond Williams', in Planet, 65 (Oct./Nov. 1987), 3–13, p. 7. 10 Ibid., p. 3. 11 Raymond Williams, 'Interview: Raymond Williams and Pierre Vicary' (broadcast on Radio Helicon, A[ustralian] B[roadcasting] C[ommission] Radio National, 28 March 1983, in Southern Review, 22.2 (July 1989), 163–74, pp. 168–9. 12 Raymond Williams, People of the Black Mountains, I: The Beginning … (London: Chatto and Windus, 1989), p. 325. 13 Williams, Barnie interview, p. 10. 14 Ibid., p. 13. 15 Republished in Raymond Williams, Writing in Society (London: Verso, 1983), pp. 151–2. 16 Williams, Barnie interview, p. 3. 17 Linda Hutcheon, The Politics of Postmodernism (1989 2nd edn, London: Routledge 'New Accents', 2002), pp. 7, 14. 18 However, I am aware that in his 'Origins and Reversions' chapter of The English Novel in History, op. cit., Steven Connor does deal with three of the novels and their pre-texts I consider here, although he does not call them 're-visionary' fictions and has a rather different take on them. 19 In Adrienne Rich, On Lies, Secrets, and Silence: Selected Prose 1966–1978 (New York: Norton, 1979), p. 35. 20 A further apparently re-visionary Caribbean novel is Maryse Condé's Windward Heights (1995 Eng. trans. by Richard Philcox, London: Faber, 1998), which transposes Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights (1847) to the Caribbean, casts Heathcliffe as the ferocious black outsider, Rayzé, and plots the story of murderous passion against a society in the wake of emancipation from slavery. However, its dedication salutes Emily Brontë – 'Who I hope will approve of this interpretation of her masterpiece. Honour and respect!' – and the novel does not seem to me to 'write back' to the pre-text in a way that opens up the original to fresh insights. 21 Harold Bloom, The Anxiety of Influence (1973 New York: Oxford University Press, paperback edn, 1975), p. 35. 22 Ibid. 23 Ibid., p. 30, Bloom's italics. 24 Gérard Genette, Palimpsests: Literature in the Second Degree (1982 trans. by Channa Newman and Claude Doubinsky, Lincoln & London: University of Nebraska Press, 1997), p. 1. All further references are to this edition, and appear as bracketed numbers in the text. 25 For a lucid account of the complexities of defining parody, see Simon Dentith's 'New Critical Idiom' volume, Parody (London: Routledge, 2000). 26 Quoted in Bill Ashcroft, Gareth Griffiths and Helen Tiffin, The Empire Writes Back: Theory and Practice in Post-Colonial Literatures (London: Routledge, 1989), p. 33. 27 First published in Henry Louis Gates (ed.), 'Race', Writing and Difference (Chicago: Chicago University Press, 1985), pp. 262–78. 28 Jean Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea (1966 Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1968), p. 21. 29 J.M. Coetzee, Foe (1986 London: Penguin Books, 1987), p. 6. 30 Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe (1719 London: Penguin Books, 1994, p. 208. 31 Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray (1891 Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1968), p. 169. 32 Will Self, Dorian: An Imitation (2002 London: Penguin Books, 2003), p. 162. 33 For an extended discussion of Dorian, see David Alderson, '"Not everyone knows fuck all about Foucault": Will Self's Dorian and Post-Gay Culture', Textual Practice, 19.3 (September 2005), 309–29. 34 Coetzee, Foe, p. 67. 35 Ibid., p. 58.
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