Orality and Other Southern Aspects in ZZ Packer's Short Stories

"Maybe stories are my time and place, Mom. You know. My time and place to say things l need to say ...The entire affair's symbolic. Heavy with meaning not weight. You know. Like metaphors. Like words interchanged as if they have no weight or too much weight, as if words are never required...

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Autor: Cañadas Rodríguez, Emilio
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2007
País:España
Institución:Universidad de Valladolid
Repositorio:UVaDOC. Repositorio Documental de la Universidad de Valladolid
OAI Identifier:oai:uvadoc.uva.es:10324/17344
Acceso en línea:http://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/17344
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Filología Inglesa
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Sumario:"Maybe stories are my time and place, Mom. You know. My time and place to say things l need to say ...The entire affair's symbolic. Heavy with meaning not weight. You know. Like metaphors. Like words interchanged as if they have no weight or too much weight, as if words are never required to bear more than they can stand. As if words, when we're finished mucking with them, go back to just being words" (John Edgar Wideman's "Weight," 2000).