Abstract
The undercurrents of autobiographies can reveal more than
just stories to their readers. The entanglement of authors and
readers provokes the dialogic imagination and reproduces a
text beyond the book. I ask how this entanglement can be
addressed through notions of representation, subjectivity
and embodiment. The article explores auto/biographies of
two Iranian female refugees to trace the emergent process
of their dialogic voices. Their voices are followed through
their portrayal of body and home in transnational settings.
I read their tales of desire and sorrow while departing from
the Bakhtinian dialogic imagination to frame the narratives of
embodiment and home in the mode of Deleuzian becoming.
just stories to their readers. The entanglement of authors and
readers provokes the dialogic imagination and reproduces a
text beyond the book. I ask how this entanglement can be
addressed through notions of representation, subjectivity
and embodiment. The article explores auto/biographies of
two Iranian female refugees to trace the emergent process
of their dialogic voices. Their voices are followed through
their portrayal of body and home in transnational settings.
I read their tales of desire and sorrow while departing from
the Bakhtinian dialogic imagination to frame the narratives of
embodiment and home in the mode of Deleuzian becoming.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 205-219 |
| Number of pages | 15 |
| Journal | Prose Studies |
| Volume | 38 |
| Issue number | 3 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 2017 |
