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In Search of Shelter: Subjectivity and Spaces of Loss in the Fiction of Paule Constant

In Search of Shelter: Subjectivity and Spaces of Loss in the Fiction of Paule Constant

Miller, Margot

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Series: After the Empire: The Francophone World and Postcolonial Fra

PhilosophyLiterary Criticism

ISBN10: 0739107763
ISBN13: 9780739107768
Publisher: Lexington Books
Published: Sep 26 2003
Pages: 190
Weight: 0.67
Height: 0.56 Width: 6.06 Depth: 9.02
Language: English
The fiction of French post-colonial writer Paule Constant is remarkable in its lurid and disturbing portrayals of female characters suffering in profoundly oppressive colonizing circumstances. In In Search of Shelter: Subjectivity and Spaces of Loss in the Fiction of Paule Constant, author Margot Miller skillfully synthesizes Karen Horney's model of submission, aggression and withdrawal, Jean Baker Miller's concept of relational being, Julia Kristeva's idea of psychic space, and Kelly Oliver's notions on social support to analyze Constant's work. Miller's close reading also brings to light previously unnoticed mythological references in Constant's fiction which illuminate the characters' psychological realities, and examines Constant's nuanced treatment of violence through language. In Search of Shelter: Subjectivity and Spaces of Loss in the Fiction of Paule Constant reveals the myriad intersections of interpersonal and cognitive psychology, mythological and cultural awareness, literature, and lived experience, and suggests new ways of reading these and other works of fiction.

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