Death Games and the Persistence of Memory: J. G. Ballard’s World War II Fictions
This article is a discussion of J. G. Ballard’s (semi-)autobiographical war narratives, with a focus on the different textual strategies and processes of signification Ballard employs from his avant-garde novel The Atrocity Exhibition (1970) to the feverish fictional account of his time in World Wa...
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This article is a discussion of J. G. Ballard’s (semi-)autobiographical war narratives, with a focus on the different textual strategies and processes of signification Ballard employs from his avant-garde novel The Atrocity Exhibition (1970) to the feverish fictional account of his time in World War II China in “The Dead Time” (1977) and Empire of the Sun (1984) to his more reflective autobiographical texts The Kindness of Women (1990) and Miracles of Life (2008). Ballard’s obsessive repetition of many of the same images and attest to a problematics of representation of the traumatic event, and ultimately they represent a complex and rich work of fabulation that escape categorizations of fiction and autobiography.
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| spelling | doaj-art-e227accb3cf74092a31c4732e64d412f2025-08-20T01:49:53ZengUniversidade Federal de Santa CatarinaIlha do Desterro0101-48462175-80262021-01-0174110.5007/2175-8026.2021.e72740Death Games and the Persistence of Memory: J. G. Ballard’s World War II FictionsPedro Groppo0https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6801-4503Universidade Federal da Paraíba This article is a discussion of J. G. Ballard’s (semi-)autobiographical war narratives, with a focus on the different textual strategies and processes of signification Ballard employs from his avant-garde novel The Atrocity Exhibition (1970) to the feverish fictional account of his time in World War II China in “The Dead Time” (1977) and Empire of the Sun (1984) to his more reflective autobiographical texts The Kindness of Women (1990) and Miracles of Life (2008). Ballard’s obsessive repetition of many of the same images and attest to a problematics of representation of the traumatic event, and ultimately they represent a complex and rich work of fabulation that escape categorizations of fiction and autobiography. https://periodicos.ufsc.br/index.php/desterro/article/view/72740 |
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