Themes in Literature

Literary Identity

identity

The nature of textual creation from a blank pageโ€” of all creation, reallyโ€”is an exercise in identity politics: Each entity fashioned depends on inclusions and exclusions. Thus, literary texts achieve selfhood via the delicate balance of their various constituent parts; just as humans are products of their DNA, so are literary texts the result of the countless phenomena occurring between their covers. They are unique entities, themselves possessing a … Read the rest