TY - JOUR
T1 - Authorship, Orality, and Print Modernity: Representing the Roma in Colum McCann’s Zoli
AU - Garden, A
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PY - 2016/5/26
Y1 - 2016/5/26
N2 - This article argues that Colum McCann’s Zoli (2006) is a complex reflection on the truth of art and representation, revealing a sense of profound ambivalence regarding the relationship between oral culture and textual modernity. Zoli, which is a novel about a Romani poet who creates literary works based on her communal oral culture, displays a sustained anxiety over the authorial ownership of texts. The article discusses how Zoli explores these issues through two main strategies: the formal construction of the novel through which McCann deflects and displaces the “original” voice of the Roma, and his fashioning of the body into a site where the tangibility of oral and print cultures become intertwined.
AB - This article argues that Colum McCann’s Zoli (2006) is a complex reflection on the truth of art and representation, revealing a sense of profound ambivalence regarding the relationship between oral culture and textual modernity. Zoli, which is a novel about a Romani poet who creates literary works based on her communal oral culture, displays a sustained anxiety over the authorial ownership of texts. The article discusses how Zoli explores these issues through two main strategies: the formal construction of the novel through which McCann deflects and displaces the “original” voice of the Roma, and his fashioning of the body into a site where the tangibility of oral and print cultures become intertwined.
U2 - 10.1080/00111619.2015.1078766
DO - 10.1080/00111619.2015.1078766
M3 - Article
SN - 0011-1619
VL - 57
SP - 348
EP - 357
JO - Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction
JF - Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction
ER -
