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Roll a Hard Six: Losing Your Noodle in Raymond Federman’s Double or Nothing

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Guenther S., Dalhousie University in Halifax N. S., Shawna Guenther f. S. P. E. I.

Analyses/Rereadings/Theories: A Journal Devoted to Literature, Film and Theatre

2015

vol. 3

issue 2

Raymond Federman’s Double or Nothing is a convoluted representation of the mentallyunstable mind existing as a series of six characters that are at once separate and conjoined: the horrors and traumatic events of the narrative past dismantle the unified subject into a series of schizophrenic sub-personalities, parts of the destabilized Author’s psyche, existing as separate fragments that eventually collide. Further, the imaginary room emerges as the Fifth Person, promising, but failing, to be a central stabilizer of the other fractured selves. Finally, the design of the text echoes the patterns of the traumatized mind, illustrating the inability of a narrative to construct a stable, unified subject and demonstrating the inadequacy of traditional narrative forms. The text, with its obliterations, cropped phrases, and pictorial manifestations, becomes the Sixth Person. However, in the end, the text shows that the past cannot be erased, explained, or reversed; neither can the experimental nature of the novel reach beyond the traumatized, schizoid subject to represent the horrors of the past that caused the Author’s psychotic breach. Federman has rolled a hard six that will repeatedly fragment and unite, just as the traumatic past continues to repeat itself as one that defies representation.

Canadian utopia in Poland: How L. M. Montgomery’s Anne of Green Gables contributed to Polish Solidarity

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Guenther S.

Beyond Philology: An International Journal of Linguistics, Literary Studies and English Language Teaching

2017

issue 14/4

97-110

L. M. Montgomery’s 1908 novel, Anne of Green Gables, about a young, socially-awkward Nova Scotian girl adopted by a family in Prince Edward Island, a novel that expresses the sentiments of the North American “New Woman” movement and markedly exhibits post-colonialist imperialism, has produced a young heroine who stands in solidarity with civil resistance in occupied Poland. Given that Montgomery was descendent of the white English/Scottish Protestant invader culture on PEI, complicit in the marginalization and deportation of French settlers and in the annihilation (literally and metaphorically) of the indigenous Mi’kmaq, the idealistic transformation of Montgomery’s famous Anne character into a symbol of political defiance seems, to me, incredible. In this article, I illustrate the utopic vision that Montgomery, and indeed Anne herself, create on Prince Edward Island and examine how that isolated, island utopia, and Anne become transfixed into heroic visions in war-time Poland.

Powieść L. M. Montgomery z 1908 roku pt. Ania z Zielonego Wzgórza o małej krnąbrnej dziewczynce z Nowej Szkocji, adoptowanej przez rodzinę z Wyspy Księcia Edwarda – powieść, która wyraża sentymenty północnoamerykańskiego ruchu na rzecz „nowej kobiety” i uwypukla postkolonialistyczny imperializm – wykreowała młodziutką bohaterkę istotną z punktu widzenia ruchu oporu w okupowanej Polsce. Biorąc pod uwagę, że Montgomery była spadkobierczynią białej, angielskiej/szkockiej, protestanckiej kultury najeźdźców na Wyspę Księcia Edwarda, współodpowiedzialnej za marginalizację i deportację francuskich osadników oraz anihilację (dosłowną i w przenośni) natywnego plemienia Mi’kmaq, idealistyczna transformacja słynnej postaci Ani stworzonej przez Montgomery w symbol politycznego oporu wydaje mi się niewiarygodna. W artykule, pokazuję utopijną wizję, którą Montgomery, a w istocie sama Ania, kreują na Wyspie Księcia Edwarda oraz analizuję, jak ta odizolowana, wyspiarska utopia oraz Ania przemieniają się w heroiczne wizje w Polsce w czasach wojny i okupacji.

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1 Analyses/Rereadings/Theories: A Journal Devoted to Literature, Film and Theatre

1 Beyond Philology: An International Journal of Linguistics, Literary Studies and English Language Teaching

2 Guenther S.

1 Dalhousie University in Halifax N. S.

1 Shawna Guenther f. S. P. E. I.

1 2017

1 2015

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Roll a Hard Six: Losing Your Noodle in Raymond Federman’s Double or Nothing

Canadian utopia in Poland: How L. M. Montgomery’s Anne of Green Gables contributed to Polish Solidarity