Blessures, fractures, sutures dans Through Black Spruce de Joseph Boyden

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Keywords:

Wounds, Absence, Loss, Trauma, Destruction, Addictions

Abstract

From a question related to the disappearance of a young Indian girl in Canada, which underpins the novel, Through Black Spruce by Joseph Boyden (2009) concentrates on the various wounds of Will Bird the narrator. This article will investigate the interconnection of the wounds in the history of Canadian Indians and the traumatic repercussions on the protagonist. It will show how vulnerability stems from absence, loss and isolation. Finally the various possibilities of escaping this vulnerability that Boyden offers will be examined.

Author Biography

Patricia Paillot, University of Bordeaux

Patricia Paillot is an assistant professor at the University of Bordeaux. Her research focuses on modern anglophone Canadian literature. She published articles on Margaret Atwood, Carol Shields, Aritha Van Herk, Robertson Davies and Michael Ondaatje and also worked on Nancy Huston, who is of Canadian descent. She is particularly interested in the strategies of displacement, deconstruction as well as subversion and irony. Her recent research concentrates on various approaches and representations of trauma in literature.

Leaves n°3 : Vulnérabilité / Vulnerability

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2017-01-30

How to Cite

Paillot, P. (2017). Blessures, fractures, sutures dans Through Black Spruce de Joseph Boyden. Leaves, (3). Retrieved from https://revues.u-bordeaux-montaigne.fr/leaves/article/view/265

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No. 3 (2017): Vulnerability

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Vulnérabilité et fiction

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