"A Fish in a Stream": on body and memory in Virginia Woolf’s “A Sketch of the Past”
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Resumo: | This article examines the deadlocks foregrounded in recreating and reconstituting memory in Virginia Woolf’s “A Sketch of the Past” from the body’s perspective. “Body” is seen here as a category to reflect upon the meanings of women’s marginality and resistance. Of particular interest are the hiatuses of memory in “Sketch,” for recovering her own body and establishing a voice from within it constituted a conflicting and contradictory process, to which Virginia Woolf responded with unique narrative strategies. General and private perspectives merge, not only because of the troubles of not being personal when writing one’s own life but because Woolf claims that leaving out “the person to whom things happen” is undesirable. Even though she may meet silence when including herself personally in her writings, silence is embraced as a constituent. I suggest that much in the same way Woolf juxtaposes temporalities and subjectivities in "Sketch," personality, impersonality, and their absence (or connectedness, which is another way of seeing it) are also juxtaposed in a kind of palimpsest that does not overlook corporeality but acknowledges it as essential. |
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"A Fish in a Stream": on body and memory in Virginia Woolf’s “A Sketch of the Past”"Um peixe numa correnteza": corpo e memória em Um esboço do passado, de Virginia WoolfThis article examines the deadlocks foregrounded in recreating and reconstituting memory in Virginia Woolf’s “A Sketch of the Past” from the body’s perspective. “Body” is seen here as a category to reflect upon the meanings of women’s marginality and resistance. Of particular interest are the hiatuses of memory in “Sketch,” for recovering her own body and establishing a voice from within it constituted a conflicting and contradictory process, to which Virginia Woolf responded with unique narrative strategies. General and private perspectives merge, not only because of the troubles of not being personal when writing one’s own life but because Woolf claims that leaving out “the person to whom things happen” is undesirable. Even though she may meet silence when including herself personally in her writings, silence is embraced as a constituent. I suggest that much in the same way Woolf juxtaposes temporalities and subjectivities in "Sketch," personality, impersonality, and their absence (or connectedness, which is another way of seeing it) are also juxtaposed in a kind of palimpsest that does not overlook corporeality but acknowledges it as essential.Este artigo pretende examinar os impasses trazidos à tona no processo de recriação e reconstituição da memória em Um esboço do passado, de Virginia Woolf, a partir do que é suscitado pelo corpo. “Corpo” é visto, aqui, como categoria para se pensar os sentidos de marginalidade e de resistência feminina. De especial interesse foram as apropriações dos hiatos das memórias em Um esboço do passado, uma vez que recuperar o próprio corpo e de dentro dele estabelecer uma voz constituiu, para a autora, um processo repleto de adversidades e contradições, ao qual Virginia Woolf respondeu artisticamente com estratégias narrativas singulares. Universal e particular misturam-se não apenas devido à dificuldade de não ser pessoal quando se fala sobre si mesmo, mas porque Woolf sugere que excluir a pessoa sobre quem se narra é indesejável. Ainda que por vezes ao incluir-se pessoalmente em seus textos ela só encontre o próprio silêncio, este é reconhecido como uma parte constitutiva deles. Tal como as superposições temporais da memória ou do tempo em “Esboço”, pessoalidade, impessoalidade e a ausência de ambas (ou sua interconexão, o que dá no mesmo) se justapõem em uma espécie de palimpsesto, que não desmerece a corporeidade, mas ao contrário, a reconhece como essencial.UFSC2021-06-07info:eu-repo/semantics/articleinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersionapplication/pdfhttps://periodicos.ufsc.br/index.php/desterro/article/view/7912810.5007/2175-8026.2021.e79128Ilha do Desterro A Journal of English Language, Literatures in English and Cultural Studies; Vol. 74 No. 2 (2021): Life WritingIlha do Desterro A Journal of English Language, Literatures in English and Cultural Studies; v. 74 n. 2 (2021): Escritas de Vida2175-80260101-4846reponame:Ilha do Desterroinstname:Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (UFSC)instacron:UFSCporhttps://periodicos.ufsc.br/index.php/desterro/article/view/79128/46607Copyright (c) 2021 Ana Carolina de Carvalho Mesquitahttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessde Carvalho Mesquita, Ana Carolina2021-06-09T17:52:26Zoai:periodicos.ufsc.br:article/79128Revistahttp://www.periodicos.ufsc.br/index.php/desterroPUBhttps://periodicos.ufsc.br/index.php/desterro/oaiilha@cce.ufsc.br||corseuil@cce.ufsc.br||ilhadodesterro@gmail.com2175-80260101-4846opendoar:2021-06-09T17:52:26Ilha do Desterro - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (UFSC)false |
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"A Fish in a Stream": on body and memory in Virginia Woolf’s “A Sketch of the Past” "Um peixe numa correnteza": corpo e memória em Um esboço do passado, de Virginia Woolf |
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This article examines the deadlocks foregrounded in recreating and reconstituting memory in Virginia Woolf’s “A Sketch of the Past” from the body’s perspective. “Body” is seen here as a category to reflect upon the meanings of women’s marginality and resistance. Of particular interest are the hiatuses of memory in “Sketch,” for recovering her own body and establishing a voice from within it constituted a conflicting and contradictory process, to which Virginia Woolf responded with unique narrative strategies. General and private perspectives merge, not only because of the troubles of not being personal when writing one’s own life but because Woolf claims that leaving out “the person to whom things happen” is undesirable. Even though she may meet silence when including herself personally in her writings, silence is embraced as a constituent. I suggest that much in the same way Woolf juxtaposes temporalities and subjectivities in "Sketch," personality, impersonality, and their absence (or connectedness, which is another way of seeing it) are also juxtaposed in a kind of palimpsest that does not overlook corporeality but acknowledges it as essential. |
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