2021-02-14 at 15:24:46
CHEVEREȘAN Cristina from West University of Timișoara (Romania)
will present Articulating the Inarticulable. Conveying Family Trauma in Philip Roth’s Patrimony
Abstract
The paper analyzes Philip Roth’s 1991 memoir, Patrimony, which documents the demise and, in retrospect, the life of the author’s father. It will focus on the quasi-clinical, yet meditative recording of facts, and on the creative discursive ways to “domesticate terror” and come to terms with the legacy of the towering figure that has subtly, but notably, pervaded Rothian writing.
In section
American Literature