“Being then nothing”: physicality, abjection and creation in Janice Galloway’s short fiction

Sacido Romero, Jorge

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“Being then nothing”: physicality, abjection and creation in Janice Galloway’s short fiction

dc.contributor.author	Sacido Romero, Jorge
dc.date.accessioned	2019-07-16T11:11:49Z
dc.date.available	2019-07-16T11:11:49Z
dc.date.issued	2019
dc.description.abstract	This article explores the prominence of the body in Janice Galloway’s short fiction. Drawing mainly on Kristeva’s notions of the semiotic and the abject, the argument initially establishes the central place of physicality in Galloway’s poetics. Her creative project is inspired by a desire to transmit in writing the experience of being alive, of how being is intrinsically fragile, inexorably bound to extinction. In a particularly sharp manner that engages the reader more actively than her novels, her short stories exhibit both formally and thematically an interaction of the symbolic and the semiotic. As being attentive to life entails an awareness of death if one is to write realistically, the ensuing discussion of stories from her three collections –Blood (1991), Where you find it (1996) and Jellyfish (2015)– reveals that abjection, the extreme version of the semiotic that threatens to cancel out the symbolic, is paramount in her creative universe.	es
dc.format	application/pdf	es
dc.format.extent	18	es
dc.identifier.issn	1989-6131
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10201/73842
dc.language	eng	es
dc.publisher	Servicio de Publicaciones, Universidad de Murcia	es
dc.relation.ispartofseries	Vol.19 (1), 2019	es
dc.rights	info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess	es
dc.rights	Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International	*
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/	*
dc.subject	Janice Galloway	es
dc.subject	Short fiction	es
dc.subject	The body	es
dc.subject	Abjection	es
dc.subject	Being	es
dc.subject	Death	es
dc.subject	Kristeva	es
dc.subject	Blanchot	es
dc.subject.other	CDU::8- Lingüística y literatura	es
dc.title	“Being then nothing”: physicality, abjection and creation in Janice Galloway’s short fiction	es
dc.type	info:eu-repo/semantics/article	es
dspace.entity.type	Publication	es