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Invisibility and power in the digital age: issues for feminist and queer narratology

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posted on 2023-08-30, 15:29 authored by Tory Young
This essay examines the continued assumption that representational visibility equates to power, in the digital age. It considers the tension between the image as a form that captures what already exists and the image as a future possibility in the era of the mantra ‘You cannot be what you cannot see’ and growing recognition of gender fluidity. After re-examination of Peggy Phelan’s reminder about the power of the unmarked, I turn to Ali Smith’s 2014 How to be both, a novel with an interchangeable Renaissance narrative and contemporary story in a palimpsestic structure, to propose a formula that could be described as the becoming-simultaneous of narrative sequence. In conceiving the ‘unnarrated’ as both a gap in what was represented in retrospect in an existing storyworld but equally as a narrative future, I link the unmarked to political possibility, and conclude that you cannot always see what you can be.

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Refereed

  • Yes

Volume

32

Issue number

6

Page range

991-1006

Publication title

Textual Practice

ISSN

1470-1308

Publisher

Taylor & Francis

File version

  • Accepted version

Language

  • eng

Legacy posted date

2018-07-20

Legacy creation date

2018-07-17

Legacy Faculty/School/Department

ARCHIVED Faculty of Arts, Law & Social Sciences (until September 2018)

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