DECODING SILENCE IN THE AISLE OF POWER ACQUISITION IN COETZEE’S DISGRACE AND KING’S GERALD’S GAMES

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Asiatic-IIUM Journal of English Language and Literature Pub Date : 2023-01-01 DOI:10.54513/joell.2023.10104

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‘Silence’ refers to the forbearance from ambient audible sounds and writings. In a rhetorical context, silence can be seen as a gesture of the ‘pregnant pause’, where the moment of silence denotes the omission of noise and signifies a space left for ponderous thoughts. Silence itself is an expression well described by authors like Thomas Hardy, Maya Angelou, J.M. Coetzee, Stephen King, and Jay Asher. Since, the concept of silence is intertwined with violating women’s honour, it finds its expression in the form of psychological trauma and incomprehensible emotions. In Disgrace, J.M Coetzee shatters the premonitions expected of women in a situation of brutal rape by depicting the power of silence to venture out for new options through Lucy's portrayal. Unlike Coetzee, Stephen King, in his novel Gerald’s Game, portrays its offset by critiquing Jessie’s silence, which thrust her into hard times. This paper aims to explore the nuances of silence in the selected novels of Coetzee and King and also tries to highlight the relation of silence with resilience as well as power acquisition associated with a promise of comfort.

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在库切的《耻辱》和金·杰拉德的《游戏》中解读权力获取通道中的沉默

“沉默”是指对周围可听到的声音和文字的忍耐。在一个修辞的语境中，沉默可以被看作是“怀孕停顿”的一种姿态，沉默的时刻意味着对噪音的省略，意味着为沉重的思想留下空间。沉默本身就是一种表达，托马斯·哈代、玛雅·安杰洛、J.M.库切、斯蒂芬·金和杰伊·阿瑟等作家都很好地描述了沉默。由于沉默的概念与侵犯女性的荣誉交织在一起，它以心理创伤和难以理解的情感的形式表现出来。在《耻辱》中，j·m·库切通过露西的形象描绘沉默的力量去冒险寻找新的选择，打破了人们对女性在残酷的强奸中所期望的预感。与库切不同的是，斯蒂芬·金在他的小说《杰拉尔德的游戏》中，通过批评杰西的沉默来弥补这一点，这使她陷入了艰难的时期。本文旨在探讨库切和金的小说中沉默的细微差别，并试图强调沉默与韧性的关系，以及与安慰承诺相关的权力获取。

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期刊介绍： Asiatic is the very first international journal on English writings by Asian writers and writers of Asian origin, currently being the only one of its kind. It aims to publish high-quality researches and outstanding creative works combining the broad fields of literature and linguistics on the same intellectual platform. Asiatic will contain a rich collection of selected articles on issues that deal with Asian Englishes, Asian cultures and Asian literatures in English, including diasporic literature and Asian literatures in translation. Articles may include studies that address the multidimensional impacts of the English Language on a wide variety of Asian cultures (South Asian, East Asian, Southeast Asian and others). Subjects of debates and discussions will encompass the socio-economic facet of the Asian world in relation to current academic investigations on literature, culture and linguistics. This approach will present the works of English-trained Asian writers and scholars, having English as the unifying device and Asia as a fundamental backdrop of their study. The three different segments that will be featured in each issue of Asiatic are: (i) critical writings on literary, cultural and linguistics studies, (ii) creative writings that include works of prose fiction and selections of poetry and (iv) review articles on Asian books, novels and plays produced in English (or translated into English). These works will reflect how elements of western and Asian are both subtly and intensely intertwined as a result of acculturation, globalisation and such.