How Literature Shapes Lives: Philip Roth’s Metafiction and Fluid Identities in the Secular Nation-State
Makaleler > Tam Makale · 2018
Yazarlar: Hüseyin Ekrem ULUS
International Journal of Comparative Literature and Translation Studies, Diğer Kurumların Hakemli Dergileri, Uluslararası, MLA International Bibliography, 2018, cilt 6, ss 66-66
DOI: 10.7575/aiac.ijclts.v.6n.2p.66
Özet
This paper discusses how Philip Roth’s The Counterlife uses metafiction to portray the plasticity of identities in a critical stance against exclusivist attitudes in nation-states. After an analysis of Roth’s use of self-reflexivity, this research juxtaposes two conflicting accounts of nation-state by Roth and Anderson. Through this comparison, the paper puts forward that Roth’s fiction continuously undermines unisonance in nation-state. This research highlights the significance of writing and self-referentiality in Roth’s novel, as political tools of continuously reshaping not only identities but also identity categories in nation-states.