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Abstract

In this article, I discuss the issue of exile in the novel On Canaan’s Side (2011), weaving considerations about the diasporic subject developed by Silviano Santiago (1978), Homi Bhabha (1995) and Edward Said (2003). The novel is an autobiography of a fictional character, whose personal history is intertwined with traumatic episodes of the history of Ireland and the United States, country in which the protagonist has been in exile since the 1920s. In my view, the historiographic practice named microhistory (GINZBURG; 2006) resembles the kind of history Sebastian Barry chooses to tell, as well as the writing of history as a discourse about the absent (CERTEAU; 2011), used allegorically by the author in the novel.

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Title
A ESCRITA DO EXÍLIO COMO UM DISCURSO SOBRE O AUSENTE, EM ON CANAAN'S SIDE, DE SEBASTIAN BARRY
Author
Abrantes, Elisa Lima 1 

 Universidade Federal Rural do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brasil 
Pages
467-480
Publication year
2021
Publication date
Jan-Apr 2021
Publisher
Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, UFSC Centro de Comunicação e Expressão
ISSN
01014846
e-ISSN
21758026
Source type
Scholarly Journal
Language of publication
Portuguese
ProQuest document ID
2522189422
Copyright
© 2021. This work is published under https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (the “License”). Notwithstanding the ProQuest Terms and Conditions, you may use this content in accordance with the terms of the License.