‘Men And Women Under A Shroud Of Silence’ : Silence In Nadia Sebkhi’s Les Sanglots De Césarée
Abstract
This article attempts to explain the forms, meanings, and roles of silence in Nadia Sebkhi’s novel Les Sanglots de Césarée. The analysis of characters, typographical blanks, reticence, aposiopesis, and ellipses reveals that the novel is an example of literature of silence. The article is divided into four sections. The first section offers a definition of silence in linguistics and literature while the second explores mute and silent characters in the selected text. The third section explores the figures and forms of silence in Sebkhi’s novel. The analysis ends with a conclusion that confirms that both silence and speech are eloquent.
Keywords -
literary silence, blanks, ellipsis, suspensivity, Algerian literature
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Tannen Deborah and Muriel Saville-Troike, eds (1985). Perspective on Silence, Norwood, NJ, Ablex.
Vernon Jensen J. (1973), Communicative Functions of Silence, ETCA Review of General Semantics, 1973, 30, p. 249-257.
Yesaya. D.P. (2017), Des maux sous silences aux mots murmurés : Failles de Yannick Lahens et Tout bouge autour de moi de Dany Laferrière, Voix plurielles, 14, 2, p. 77-91
Brabet, D and Honoré, JP. (2003), Ce que se taire veut dire/ Expressions et usages politiques
du silence, Mots : Les langages du politique, 103, p. 7-21.
Bruneau T.J. (1973), Communicative Silences: Forms and Functions, Journal of Communication, 23, p. 17-46.
Ephratt Michal (2008), The Function of Silence, Journal of Pragmatics, 44, p. 1909-1938.
Flaubert Gustave (1846), Lettres a Louise Colet, Paris, Editions Gallimard.
Hassan Ihab (1967), The Literature of Silence: Henry Miller and Samuel Beckett, New York, Oxford University Press.
Jaworski Adam (1993), The Power of Silence: Social and Pragmatic Perspectives, Newbury Park, CA, Sage Publications.
Le Breton David (Autumn 1999), Une anthropologie du silence, 7, 2, p. 11–28.
Le Breton David (1997), Du Silence: Essai,
Le Meur Cyrile (2011), Le Silence du texte, Poétique, 1, 165, p. 73-89.
Merleau-Ponty Maurice (1969), The Visble and the Invisible, translated by Alphonso. Evanston, Northwestern University Press.
Merleau Ponty Maurice (1964). Indirect Language and the Voices of Silence, Signs, Evanston, Ill., Northwestern University Press, p. 39-83.
Monteglio Silvia (2000), Silence in the Land of Logos, Princeton University Press, Princeton.
Samarin, J. W. (1965), Language of Silence, Practical Anthropology, 12, 3, p. 115-119.
Sartre Jean Paul (1988), What is Literature? And Other Essays, Harvard, Harvard University Press.
Sebkhi, N. (2012). Les sanglots de Césarée. Alger: Edition Minuit.
Sontag Susan (1996), The Aesthetic of Silence, Style of Radical Will, New York, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, p. 3-34.
Steiner George (1967), Language and Silence: Essays on Language, Literature, and the Inhuman, New York: Atheneum.
Tannen Deborah and Muriel Saville-Troike, eds (1985). Perspective on Silence, Norwood, NJ, Ablex.
Vernon Jensen J. (1973), Communicative Functions of Silence, ETCA Review of General Semantics, 1973, 30, p. 249-257.
Yesaya. D.P. (2017), Des maux sous silences aux mots murmurés : Failles de Yannick Lahens et Tout bouge autour de moi de Dany Laferrière, Voix plurielles, 14, 2, p. 77-91
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