{"id":1792,"date":"2022-05-12T01:29:45","date_gmt":"2022-05-12T01:29:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/particip-action.com\/?p=1792"},"modified":"2025-05-12T02:15:53","modified_gmt":"2025-05-12T02:15:53","slug":"spaces-in-nadine-gordimers-the-pickup-sites-of-identity-redefinition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/particip-action.com\/?p=1792","title":{"rendered":"SPACES IN NADINE GORDIMER\u2019S THE PICKUP: SITES OF IDENTITY REDEFINITION"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;\">Abstract<\/span><\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;\">This study analyses the symbolic dimension of spaces, in the multi- focalized narrative of The Pickup. It demonstrates that the private spaces, and physical surroundings framing the story, are sites of cultural frictions leading to identity deconstruction and redefinition. By demonstrating the metaphorical dimension of the spaces in the story, the study argues that the characters\u2019 feelings of homelessness and subsequent quest for belonging are delineated in the meticulous images of the various places inhabited by them. While exploring the images encoded in spaces, the analysis leans on Edouard Glissant\u2019s postulates in The Poetics of Relation (1997) and Julia Kristeva\u2019s developments on the displacement, and loss of migrants in Strangers to Ourselves (1991), to conclude that relocation into new cultural spaces, and the search for the Other in postcolonial multicultural societies, bring characters into convergent and divergent ways in their quest for belonging, self-realization, and social recognition<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;\">Keywords: spaces, homelessness, identity, belonging, Gordimer.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;\">R\u00e9sum\u00e9<\/span><\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;\">Cette \u00e9tude analyse la dimension symbolique des espaces dans l\u2019histoire multi focalis\u00e9e de The Pickup. Elle explique que les espaces priv\u00e9s et publics qui encadrent l\u2019histoire sont des lieux de frictions culturelles, engendrant une d\u00e9construction et une reconstruction identitaire. En examinant la port\u00e9e m\u00e9taphorique des espaces, l\u2019\u00e9tude d\u00e9montre que le sentiment de d\u00e9senchantement qui affecte les personnages ainsi que leur besoin vital d\u2019appartenance, sont contenus dans les images \u00e9loquentes des endroits qu\u2019ils habitent. En se fondant sur les th\u00e9ories d\u2019Edouard Glissant d\u00e9velopp\u00e9es dans The Poetics of Relation (1997) et celles de Julia Kristeva sur le d\u00e9placement et le malaise de l\u2019immigr\u00e9, dans Strangers to Ourselves (1991), l\u2019\u00e9tude conclue que l\u2019immigration vers de nouvelles sph\u00e8res culturelles et la qu\u00eate de l\u2019Autre dans les soci\u00e9t\u00e9s postcoloniales, am\u00e8nent les personnages \u00e0 adopter des positions \u00e0 la fois convergentes et divergentes, dans leur d\u00e9sir d\u2019appartenance, de r\u00e9alisation de soi et de reconnaissance sociale.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;\">Mots-cl\u00e9s : espaces, d\u00e9senchantement, identit\u00e9, appartenance, Gordimer<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Abstract This study analyses the symbolic dimension of spaces, in the multi- focalized narrative of The Pickup. It demonstrates that the private spaces, and physical surroundings framing the story, are sites of cultural frictions leading to identity deconstruction and redefinition. 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