Neither sword nor pen: phallacious impotence
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Resumo: | This essay explores narrative crises in Salman Rushdie’s postcolonial novel Midnight’s Children by displaying the dynamics of its (re)solutionist mechanisms. The main argument is that neither narratives of textual closure nor of open-endedness can be reduced to a mimetic politics (of determinism or relativism, to give just two examples), once solipsistic control over the text has been demystified. This irreducibility is demonstrated as the narrator’s discourse of authorial impotence seeks to deflect attention from the constructedness of his competing narrative of phallocentric resolution in order to upgrade the reliability of both his identitarian and his nonidentitarian politics. Among the questions the essay seeks to address are: How do the narrator’s contradictory discourses suppress class and gender conflicts in the novel? How can this suppression be understood as a ‘complicitous critique’ (Hutcheon) of authoritarian narrativization? What are the narrative strategies used by Rushdie’s narrator(s) and his characters to simulate change and dissimulate unchange, forestalling dialogic relationality with the other as self, and with the self as other? Keywords: historiographic metafiction; authorial control; narrative impotence; irresolution; ethics. |
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Neither sword nor pen: phallacious impotenceNeither sword nor pen: phallacious impotenceThis essay explores narrative crises in Salman Rushdie’s postcolonial novel Midnight’s Children by displaying the dynamics of its (re)solutionist mechanisms. The main argument is that neither narratives of textual closure nor of open-endedness can be reduced to a mimetic politics (of determinism or relativism, to give just two examples), once solipsistic control over the text has been demystified. This irreducibility is demonstrated as the narrator’s discourse of authorial impotence seeks to deflect attention from the constructedness of his competing narrative of phallocentric resolution in order to upgrade the reliability of both his identitarian and his nonidentitarian politics. Among the questions the essay seeks to address are: How do the narrator’s contradictory discourses suppress class and gender conflicts in the novel? How can this suppression be understood as a ‘complicitous critique’ (Hutcheon) of authoritarian narrativization? What are the narrative strategies used by Rushdie’s narrator(s) and his characters to simulate change and dissimulate unchange, forestalling dialogic relationality with the other as self, and with the self as other? Keywords: historiographic metafiction; authorial control; narrative impotence; irresolution; ethics.Este artigo explora crises narrativas no romance pós-colonial Midnight’s Children, de Salman Rushdie, ao expor seus mecanismos de (re)solucão. Parte-se do argumento principal de que nem as narrativas de fechamento nem as de abertura textual são redutíveis a uma política mimética (de determinismo ou relativismo, para dar apenas dois exemplos), uma vez que o texto potencializa a desmistificação de seu controle solipsista pelo autor ou pelo leitor. Essa irredutibilidade é demonstrada à medida que o discurso de impotência autoral do narrador distrai o leitor do discurso de legitimação falocêntrica de autor-idade para incrementar a confiabilidade de sua política, tanto identitária quanto não-identitária. Algumas questões discutidas são: Como os discursos contraditórios do narrador suprimem conflitos de classe e gênero em suas diversas narrativas? Em que sentido podemos perceber tal supressão como uma ‘crítica complícita’ (Hutcheon) de narrativização autor-itária? Quais as estratégias narrativas exploradas pelo(s) narrador(es) de Rushdie e suas personagens para simular mudança e dissimular inércia, impedindo a relacionalidade dialógica com o outro enquanto eu, e com o eu enquanto outro?UFSC2005-01-01info:eu-repo/semantics/articleinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersionapplication/pdfhttps://periodicos.ufsc.br/index.php/desterro/article/view/7364Ilha do Desterro A Journal of English Language, Literatures in English and Cultural Studies; No. 48 (2005); 189-226Ilha do Desterro A Journal of English Language, Literatures in English and Cultural Studies; n. 48 (2005); 189-2262175-80260101-4846reponame:Ilha do Desterroinstname:Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (UFSC)instacron:UFSCporhttps://periodicos.ufsc.br/index.php/desterro/article/view/7364/6764Copyright (c) 2005 Eliana de Souza Ávilahttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessÁvila, Eliana de Souza2022-12-07T12:07:57Zoai:periodicos.ufsc.br:article/7364Revistahttp://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:2022-12-07T12:07:57Ilha do Desterro - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (UFSC)false |
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This essay explores narrative crises in Salman Rushdie’s postcolonial novel Midnight’s Children by displaying the dynamics of its (re)solutionist mechanisms. The main argument is that neither narratives of textual closure nor of open-endedness can be reduced to a mimetic politics (of determinism or relativism, to give just two examples), once solipsistic control over the text has been demystified. This irreducibility is demonstrated as the narrator’s discourse of authorial impotence seeks to deflect attention from the constructedness of his competing narrative of phallocentric resolution in order to upgrade the reliability of both his identitarian and his nonidentitarian politics. Among the questions the essay seeks to address are: How do the narrator’s contradictory discourses suppress class and gender conflicts in the novel? How can this suppression be understood as a ‘complicitous critique’ (Hutcheon) of authoritarian narrativization? What are the narrative strategies used by Rushdie’s narrator(s) and his characters to simulate change and dissimulate unchange, forestalling dialogic relationality with the other as self, and with the self as other? Keywords: historiographic metafiction; authorial control; narrative impotence; irresolution; ethics. |
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