THE CONSTRUCTEDNESS OF ENGLISHNESS IN JULIAN BARNES’S ARTHUR & GEORGE
Journal Title: International Journal of English and Literature (IJEL) - Year 2017, Vol 7, Issue 2
Abstract
Matters of identity happen to be of a recurrent theme in postmodern fiction which reflects the zeitgeist of postmodern philosophy. The latter tends to display a sceptical view upon all past knowledge regarded as the knowledge which is, now, being rejected and the truthfulness alongside the authenticity of which is being evaluated. The present paper addresses the notion as well as the constructedness of Englishness in Julian Barnes’s fictional work; Arthur & George and England, England, whereby Barnes treats Englishness as either an invented/constructed notion or an identity of its own existence.
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NARIMAN LARBI
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