Journal article
Narrative Returns: The Production of Domino
Abstract
Abstract: Ross King’s 1995 novel Domino follows Honoré de Balzac’s Sarrasine (1830) and Roland Barthes’s S/Z (1970) in using the castrato as an analogue for contemporary textuality and sexuality. The body and voice of the castrato traduce classification and elicit responses that can be only multiple and fragmentary. All three texts address epistemological and ontological crises of identity whereby gender becomes unhinged from certainty, and …
Authors
Kehler G
Journal
ESC English Studies in Canada, Vol. 28, No. 3, pp. 447–469
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
Publication Date
2002
DOI
10.1353/esc.2002.0033
ISSN
0317-0802