Vous et nous : qui sont-ils ? Variation pronominale, différentiation et identité chez Toni Morrison
Abstract
In an absolute refusal to give in to the injunction of the “white gaze”, Toni Morrison problematizes in her discourse on her own writing the tension between a third and a first person, singular or plural. The article will attempt to show how the pronoun “you”, the second-person marker, enables the author to play with and thwart this tension without evading it or reducing it to a binary confrontation, particularly in Jazz (1992), Love (2003), Home (2012), and A Mercy (2008), where a recurring second-person address is deployed within narrative passages. Through a stylistic analysis of these four novels, based on the theory of predicative and enunciative operations, the article sets out to show how these “you”, in their variety, work on the notion of differentiation in close connection with identity, and place co-enunciation at the heart of the reading experience. Keywords: pronouns, Toni Morrison, address, co-enunciation
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2025-04-17
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