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Reading Corporeality in Patrick Whiteâs Fiction
An Abject Dictatorship of the Flesh
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In Reading Corporeality in Patrick Whiteâs Fiction: An Abject Dictatorship of the Flesh, Bridget Grogan combines theoretical explication, textual comparison, and close reading to argue that corporeality is central to Patrick Whiteâs fiction, shaping the characterization, style, narrative trajectories, and implicit philosophy of his novels and short stories. Critics have often identified a radical disgust at play in Whiteâs writing, claiming that it arises from a defining dualism that posits the âpurityâ of the disembodied âspiritâ in relation to the âpollutionâ of the material world. Grogan argues convincingly, however, that Whiteâs fiction is far more complex in its approach to the body. Modeling ways in which Kristevan theory may be applied to modern fiction, her close attention to Whiteâs recurring interest in physicality and abjection draws attention to his complex questioning of metaphysics and subjectivity, thereby providing a fresh and compelling reading of this important world author.
BRIDGET GROGAN, Ph.D. (2013, Rhodes University) is a Senior Lecturer in the University of Johannesburgâs Department of English. She has published a number of articles on Patrick White and, more generally, on Australian literature, South African literature, and psychoanalysis. This is her first monograph.