Analysis of Polyphonic Style in Disappearance

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10.2991/assehr.k.201215.341How to use a DOI?

Keywords

polyphonic style, subjectivity, dialogue, open-endedness

Abstract

As a polyphonic novel, Disappearance presents a magnificent panorama of the Guyana people after 1966 when they just won their independence from British colonial rule. Almost all the existing literature on this novel is extensive and focuses particularly on broad visions, e.g. colonial trauma, culture hegemony and so forth. However, no research has been conducted to highlight value of individuals and their significance against grand background. To fill this gap, the paper attempts to analyze it from a specific point of view, i.e. polyphonic style, derived from polyphony theory by Bakhtin. Using polyphonic style, Disappearance is studied in three dimensions: subjectivity, dialogue, and open-endedness. It concludes that, with polyphonic style as the method, Disappearance could be viewed from an exact perspective. Accordingly, individual value is highly emphasized and their significance is utterly appreciated.

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© 2020, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Haiyan Wang
AU  - Hua He
PY  - 2020
DA  - 2020/12/18
TI  - Analysis of Polyphonic Style in Disappearance
BT  - Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Education, Language, Art and Inter-cultural Communication (ICELAIC 2020)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 261
EP  - 265
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.201215.341
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.201215.341
ID  - Wang2020
ER  -