Marooning on Islands of Her Own Choosing: Inscribing Place and Instability in Alice Munro’s “Deep-Holes”

Corinne Florence Bigot (1)

1 CAS - Cultures anglo-saxonnes

The essay analyzes Alice Munro’s “Deep-Holes” which features real, singular and apparently unconnected places, arguing that as a geomancer Munro inscribes place, highlights gaps in the referential process, and reveals instability of meaning, through shifts in the perception of space and place. “Deep-Holes” is one of the Canadian short story writer’s geoliterary stories in which she uses space to comment on her writing, to foster a double vision in readers and encourage them to draw connections between place and fiction, within a single story and from story to story.

Mots clés: Alice Munro; short fiction; Ontario geological landscape; geographic metafiction; geografictione

Domaines: Littératures

Corinne Florence Bigot. Marooning on Islands of Her Own Choosing: Inscribing Place and Instability in Alice Munro’s “Deep-Holes”. Commonwealth Essays and Studies, 2020, 42 (2), ⟨10.4000/ces.1882⟩. ⟨hal-02994820⟩