Between transgression and politics. Christine Angot’s literary project
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.34864/heteroglossia.issn.2084-1302.nr19.art4Keywords:
Christine Angot, women’s writing, incest, transgression, autofictionAbstract
French writer Christine Angot argue that literature is the only space in which the indicible trauma of sexual abuse can resonate, and victims can reclaim their voices in the public sphere. Angot’s writing style evolves from self-therapeutic familiarization with traumatic experience to political engagement. Angot’s writing style evolves, the writer convinces the reader that she is at a different stage of coming to terms with the experienced trauma, she can look at it from a distance, and therefore the strategies and goals of the narrative are different. It is not about a confession that is supposed to fulfill a therapeutic role but about convincing the reader that the problem remains socially misunderstood. Intimacy becomes the political territory of the fight against socially legitimized abuse that Angot wants to expose and denounce. The idea is to express in text what we cannot verbalize, to capture the basis of social problems, to expose their authoritarian and often perverse mechanisms, and then to place these traumatic experiences in public discourse.
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