The novel by Madeleine Thiene, Dogs at the Perimeter (2011), written by a Sino-Canadian writer, is about a child's life in Cambodia and is voiced in a wavelength, described by Amitav Ghosh, as "painfully soft-spoken in the Khmer way". Inevitably pivoting around traumas, the narrative develops through (linguistic) symptoms. It is exactly this unique, magnificently elaborate relationship between a literary work and "a" language, its "own" language, that is worth exploring here.

"Amitav Ghosh's and Madeleine Thien's Cambodia: What is Literature without a Language"

CONCILIO, Carmelina
2014-01-01

Abstract

The novel by Madeleine Thiene, Dogs at the Perimeter (2011), written by a Sino-Canadian writer, is about a child's life in Cambodia and is voiced in a wavelength, described by Amitav Ghosh, as "painfully soft-spoken in the Khmer way". Inevitably pivoting around traumas, the narrative develops through (linguistic) symptoms. It is exactly this unique, magnificently elaborate relationship between a literary work and "a" language, its "own" language, that is worth exploring here.
2014
A Warm Mind-Shake. Scritti in onore di Paolo Bertinetti
Edizioni Trauben
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Cambodia; Canada; Trau and Literarature
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