The Displaced Self: The Experience of Atopia and the Recollection of Place

The Displaced Self: The Experience of Atopia and the Recollection of Place

Within a theoretical framework derived from Heidegger, Henri Lefebvre, and others, this essay investigates the way in which the sense of psychological displacement that attends the experience of spatial displacement (what Roland Barthes calls atopia) is repaired by the self-conscious recollection of...

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Veröffentlicht in:Mosaic (Winnipeg) 2003-03, Vol.36 (1), p.21-33
1. Verfasser: WALKER, DENIS B.
Format: Artikel
Sprache:eng
Schlagworte:
Creative writing
Exile
French literature
History & criticism
Identity
Literary criticism
Literary theory
Literature
Memory
Mosaic
Narrative modes
Narratives
Personal identity
Place identity
Proust, Marcel (1871-1922)
Sacks, Oliver W
Said, Edward
Self
Self image
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Zusammenfassung:Within a theoretical framework derived from Heidegger, Henri Lefebvre, and others, this essay investigates the way in which the sense of psychological displacement that attends the experience of spatial displacement (what Roland Barthes calls atopia) is repaired by the self-conscious recollection of the places of one's past.
ISSN:0027-1276
1925-5683