Survival in the Pessimum: Wording and Worlding in Marie NDiaye’s Ladivine
Abstract:In NDiaye’s textual world, language accrues the authority to confound what something is said to be with what something actually is. Drawing on theories of racialization, this essay argues that the immanent and imminent psycho-physical disintegration of characters in Ladivine (2013) is caused by an unspoken rec...