Sweeney, Carole. 2018. ‘Groping Inside Language’: Translation, Humour and Experiment in Christine Brooke-Rose’s Between and Brigid Brophy’s In Transit. Textual Practice, 32(2), pp. 301-316. ISSN 0950-236X [Article]

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Published within a year of one another, Christine Brooke-Rose’s Between (1968) and Brigid Brophy’s In Transit (1969) are experimental anti-novels sharing a fascination with anti-realist narrative techniques. Each text explores the possibilities of linguistic playfulness and the ways in which a rigidly gendered language system might be ‘unsexed’ by trans-lingual wordplay, the subversion of literary genre and an attention to the mechanics of translation as both a semantic and ideological practice.

Item Type:	Article
Identification Number (DOI):	https://doi.org/10.1080/0950236X.2018.1413047
Keywords:	Christine Brooke-Rose, Brigid Brophy, post-war literature, translation, experimental writing, gender
Departments, Centres and Research Units:	English and Comparative Literature
Dates:	Date Event 9 October 2017 Accepted 24 January 2018 Published
Item ID:	24139
Date Deposited:	23 Nov 2018 10:40
Last Modified:	24 Jun 2019 01:26
Peer Reviewed:	Yes, this version has been peer-reviewed.
URI:	https://research.gold.ac.uk/id/eprint/24139

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