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From the supplier: The language game in Brigid Brophy's 'In Transit' makes the plot and the narrative form give the meaning. Thus she creates a psychological fiction that conveys its truth by miscommunication. The communication breakdown is conveyed most profoundly by the narrator's inability to remember whether she or he is a he or a she. This reveals the absurdity of assigning gender to make the narrator exist and gender as signifier is parodied. Here then lies her twin genius: art as an individual and, simultaneously, a social act. Individual because it breaks down conventional communication lines, social because it is able to communicate the breakdown of communication.
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Title: Communication breakdown and the 'twin genius' of Brophy's 'In Transit.'
Author: Patricia Lee
Publication: The Review of Contemporary Fiction (Refereed)
Date: September 22, 1995
Publisher: Review of Contemporary Fiction
Volume: v15 Issue: n3 Page: p62(6)
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From the supplier: The language game in Brigid Brophy's 'In Transit' makes the plot and the narrative form give the meaning. Thus she creates a psychological fiction that conveys its truth by miscommunication. The communication breakdown is conveyed most profoundly by the narrator's inability to remember whether she or he is a he or a she. This reveals the absurdity of assigning gender to make the narrator exist and gender as signifier is parodied. Here then lies her twin genius: art as an individual and, simultaneously, a social act. Individual because it breaks down conventional communication lines, social because it is able to communicate the breakdown of communication.
Citation Details
Title: Communication breakdown and the 'twin genius' of Brophy's 'In Transit.'
Author: Patricia Lee
Publication: The Review of Contemporary Fiction (Refereed)
Date: September 22, 1995
Publisher: Review of Contemporary Fiction
Volume: v15 Issue: n3 Page: p62(6)
Distributed by Thomson Gale
