New voices and spaces in Ambai's short stories
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URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10835/1020
ISSN: 1578-3820
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.25115/odisea.v0i10.307
ISSN: 1578-3820
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.25115/odisea.v0i10.307
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Moreno Alvarez, AlejandraDate
2009Abstract
Literatura is an important tool to understand how cultures and identities represent themselves. Images are enclosed within words creating illusions of presence, metonyms and signs of identities’ absence and loss. If repetition is the language the dominant discourse uses to create a “ripple-like pattern”, Ambai, one of the fi nest contemporary short-story writers in Tamil, makes use of that mimesis to strategically compel already made stereotypical images that, arduously re-written, attempt to its own deconstruction. This paper aims to analyze the “equipment of living” given by a dominant discourse and how Ambai twists it in order to give voice to the Other of the Other. La literatura es una herramiento necesaria para comprender cómo las identidades y los espacios han sido y son representados. Ambai, autora Tamil de narrativa breve, crea imágenes a través de sus palabras inscribiendo signos identitarios y el por qué de la ausencia de una autenticidad propia de los mismos en las mujeres....
Palabra/s clave
Subaltern
Irony
Gender
Tamil
Dominant discourse
Polemic and argumentative-tative logos
Domestic observation
Interior monologue
Surrealist images
Subalterno
Ironía
Género
Discurso dominante
Lenguaje
Domesticidad
Monólogo interior
Surrealismo