Open AccessA STORY OF HER OWN: MEMORY AND NARRATIVE IN SHORT FICTION BY MARGARET LAURENCE, ALICE MUNRO AND MARGARET ATWOOD
Author(s) -
Carolina de Pinho Santoro Lopes
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
cadernos de letras da uff
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2447-4207
pISSN - 1413-053X
DOI - 10.22409/cadletrasuff.v31i61.44143
Subject(s) - alice (programming language) , narrative , perspective (graphical) , identity (music) , performance art , art history , literature , history , psychoanalysis , art , aesthetics , psychology , visual arts
The objective of this paper is to analyze the interplay of narrative, memory, and identity in short stories by Canadian authors Margaret Laurence, Alice Munro and Margaret Atwood. The three works explored in the article are narratives told from the perspective of characters who delve into their own past to make sense of their present, thereby revealing the strong bond between the act of remembering and the construction of one’s self.