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Article: Generative melancholy: women's loss and literary representation.(Essay)
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- Mosaic (Winnipeg)
- Article date:
- December 1, 2008
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This essay grows out of my fascination with melancholia and with women's modern and postmodern novels that are somehow "beside" themselves. For example, writers such as Djuna Barnes, Virginia Woolf, and Toni Morrison have all produced novels that are relatively unconcerned with plot and are dense with intricate, even excessive, language and complex form. I suggest these texts use that difficult form to make visible a blind spot and an absence that cannot be represented easily and so are figured as loss or a kind of generative melancholia. Melancholy and narrative are intricately connected because melancholia is, in part, about the experience of loss and how to represent ...
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