“Suddenly Afraid”: Challenged Identities and Disrupted Meaning in Lydia Davis’s Short Fiction

Implementing Julia Kristeva’s theory of abjection, the present study attempts to demonstrate that the short fiction of Lydia Davis, contemporary American writer, is, first and foremost, about the fragility of identity and the precariousness of its borders. Using a descriptive-analytical approach and...

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Main Authors: Mohsen Hanif, Zahra Amini
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of Kurdistan 2024-04-01
Series:Critical Literary Studies
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Online Access:https://cls.uok.ac.ir/article_63091.html
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