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https://doi.org/10.38003/ccsr.3.5-6.8
Les imbéciles de Jerome Avenue : hétérotopie et récit de soi dans l’oeuvre de Jerome Charyn
Michaëla Cogan
; Université de Franche-Comté
Abstract
This article explores the specific role of heterotopia in a literary context as a place located
in-between reality and fiction, specifically in the light of the autofictional play at work in
Charyn’s writing. As both a spatial landmark and imaginary background of a reinvented
world, the Bronx intersects both fact and creation. This subjective cartography brings
Charyn to reposition different possible first persons along a complex spectrum. Like
Jerome Avenue, which cuts Charyn’s former borough in half, the line separating history
and story is not wholly uncrossable, but rather a threshold to an affective mode of speech
based on idiosyncrasy.
Keywords
Bronx, autofiction, idiocy, subjective cartography, heterotopia
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328121
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Publication date:
31.12.2021.
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