TY  - BOOK
AU  - Charlotte Baker
PY  - 2011
CY  - Oxford, United Kingdom
PB  - Peter Lang Verlag
SN  - 1422-9005
SN  - 9783035301106
TI  - Enduring Negativity
T2  - Representations of Albinism in the Novels of Didier Destremau, Patrick Grainville and Williams Sassine
DO  - 10.3726/978-3-0353-0110-6
UR  - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1051988
N2  - This study focuses on fictional representations of albinism in the work of the French writers Didier Destremau and Patrick Grainville, and the Francophone Guinean writer Williams Sassine. The focus on selected novels allows for an in-depth study of each narrative and sheds new critical light on these under-studied writers, permitting a comparative discussion of the novels in relation to other writing about albinism. A series of common themes can be found in these novels, which, although present in different combinations and intensities, echo the preoccupations of all fictional writing about albinism. They include a recognition of the problematic relationship between inner and outer reality (in both bodily terms and in relation to notions of inclusion and exclusion), the challenging of accepted categories and designations, and the consequent problematisation of the relationship between Self and Other. Bound up with these issues, of course, are questions of identity and power.
KW  - questions of identity and power, writing about albinism, Didier Destremau and Patrick Grainville, Williams Sassine
LA  - English
ER  -