Los significados del cuerpo en The Trick Is to Keep Breathing, de Janice Galloway
ISSN: 0211-5913
Year of publication: 2006
Issue: 53
Pages: 137-148
Type: Article
More publications in: Revista Canaria de Estudios Ingleses
Abstract
In a decade when many Scottish writers were concerned with an exhaustive exploration of their identity, Janice Galloway’s acclaimed first novel, The Trick Is to Keep Breathing (1989), offers an intimate portrayal of a particular experience that transcends the constrains of collective definition. This paper concentrates on the experimental narrative techniques used by Galloway in order to reveal the artificially woven codes that condition our identities. We will explore the strategies Galloway uses to uct the messages inscribed on the body of her female narrative voice, as well as her constant transgression of textual patterns.