Surviving Disownment: Deictic Shift and Embodied Emotions in Sanghera's Shame (2007) | ||
| CDELT Occasional Papers in the Development of English Education | ||
| Article 15, Volume 66, Issue 1, January 2019, Pages 361-390 PDF (745.19 K) | ||
| Document Type: Original Article | ||
| DOI: 10.21608/opde.2019.133245 | ||
| Author | ||
| Maha Samir Zaghloul Zaghloul | ||
| Abstract | ||
| Testimonial writing is a narrative "told in the first person by a narrator who is also the real protagonist or witness of the events she or he recounts" (Beverly, 1993, p. 70). The unit of narration is usually a significant life experience where the main focus is not on the 'problematic hero' but rather on the protagonist / narrator as a "representative…of a large social class or group…" (Beverly, 1993, p. 74). The present study aims at identifying the stylistic features affecting the intensity and authenticity of Sanghera's ‘Shame’ (2007). The main question here is what triggers the emotional affect towards the text. I attempt to analyze the text in the light of different theories from different disciplines. The employed frameworks include Speech & Thought Presentation from stylistics, Deictic Shift Theories from cognitive linguistics, and Embodiment & Emotions from psychology.Sanghera’s unique styleis proven to draw the reader into her tragic experience and this guarantees the readers’ sympathy with her cause. She invites the readers to relive her traumatic experience with her rather than read about which creates a sense of authenticity and immediacy. | ||
| Keywords | ||
| Testimonials - JasvinderSanghera; Shame - Speech & Thought Presentation - Deictic Shift Theory - Embodiment & Emotions | ||
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