Subverting Injurious Language: How Ilse Aichinger’s Narratological Strategies Liberate the Protagonist of “Spiegelgeschichte”

IF 0.5 4区 文学 0 LITERATURE, GERMAN, DUTCH, SCANDINAVIAN SEMINAR-A JOURNAL OF GERMANIC STUDIES Pub Date : 2016-09-01 DOI:10.3138/SEMINAR.52.3.04
C. Scott
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Abstract:This essay examines the narratological and rhetorical features of Ilse Aichinger’s story of a botched abortion, “Spiegelgeschichte,” in order to highlight the challenges associated with putting female, bodily trauma into language. By focusing its analysis on the text’s second-person narration and imperative statements it makes an argument about the degree to which the protagonist is liberated from the oppressive conditions that lead to her death. Through her act of reflective storytelling the protagonist divides herself into narrated and narrating selves in order to experience herself as both subject and object and to fight back against her entrapment in a temporal chain of cause and effect. Reaching the limits of this reflective language, however, she must eventually turn to defiant silence in order to (re)establish herself as a unified subject and escape the injurious language that surrounds her.
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颠覆有害语言:伊尔丝·艾青格的叙事策略如何解放《明镜》的主角
摘要:本文通过对伊尔丝·艾青格(Ilse Aichinger)的拙劣堕胎故事的叙事和修辞特征进行分析,以突出将女性身体创伤转化为语言的挑战。通过集中分析文本的第二人称叙述和祈使句,它提出了一个关于主人公从导致她死亡的压迫条件中解放出来的程度的论点。通过她的反思性叙事行为,主人公将自己分为被叙述的自我和叙述的自我,以体验自己既是主体又是客体,并反击她在因果关系的时间链中的束缚。然而,在达到这种反思语言的极限时,她最终必须转向挑衅的沉默,以便(重新)将自己建立为一个统一的主体,并逃离围绕在她周围的有害语言。
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期刊介绍: The first issue of Seminar appeared in the Spring of 1965, sponsored jointly by the Canadian Association of University Teachers of German (CAUTG) and the German Section of the Australasian Universities Language and Literature Association (AULLA). This collaborative sponsorship has continued to the present day, with the Journal essentially a Canadian scholarly journal, its Editors all Canadian, likewise its publisher, and managerial and editorial decisions taken by the Editor and/or the Canadian Editorial Committee,the Australasian Associate Editor being responsible for the selection of articles submitted from that area.
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