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T1 Intimacy, Violence and Identity: The Fiction of A.L. Kennedy
A1 Dickson, Beth
AB This essay will discuss Kennedy’s major fiction: Looking for thePossible Dance, So I Am Glad, the novella Original Bliss and the shortstory “Night Geometry and the Garscadden Trains.” In a postmodernistworld where traditional relationships have broken down, Kennedy positsan overwhelming desire for intimacy. However, many risks have tobe taken in ‘new’ relationships. It is not easy to get to know people andeven when they are known they are sometimes looking for a commitmentwhich is not necessarily a concomitant of intimacy. The problemsraised by not knowing one’s partner or by wanting different things areoften filled with violence as personal and capable of reaching the innermostdepths of a person’s being as the intimacy of which it is thedark aspect. The essay will also examine Kennedy’s narrative techniqueas a means of expressing the hesitancies, fears and bravery of modernrelationships.
SN e-2530-8335
YR 2000
FD 2000
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DS Repositorio institucional de la Universidad de La Laguna
RD 19-nov-2024