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Introduction - Texting the self: Weaving a way into the self & into society

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Starting from an interpretation of Genesis 1-3 this article compares the significance of the introduction of textile with Prometheus’ transgression and later with Arachne’s #metoo movement. After a brief survey of the social functions of textile the focus is on how sartorial language is only one out of the five channels with which we communicate: dermaterial (skin language), sartorial (clothes language), pellicular (our body image which changes as we develop), gestural (the language of how we translate our culture into our temperament and vice versa) and verbal language. If an individual tries to realize her destiny rather than to undergo her fate she allows each of these communication channels to be steered by the phantasms (images that belong to one’s life), which can be so powerful that they become transitional objects leading to transitional actions. This is illustrated in three Irish texts, one play, one poem and one novel: Yeats’s The Player Queen, Paula Meehan’s ‘The Pattern’ and Emma Donoghue’s Slammerkin.
Tijdschrift: RISE, Review of Irish Studies in Europe
ISSN: 2398-7685
Issue: 1
Volume: 2
Pagina's: 1 - 32
Jaar van publicatie:2018