Abstract

MARTINS, Diogo André Barbosa. A Blindfolded pact: On self-representation by Alanis Morissette. Diacrítica [online]. 2012, vol.26, n.3, pp.61-91. ISSN 0807-8967.

Speaking about identity or subject still remains an arduous task at many levels, including discourse, when everything, from high literature to cloth-fashion, stands as a communicational ground. Seemingly, underneath each attempt to disclose the self, there is the premise of a decentered, polyphonic or fractal subject, which is more suitable to the human irreducibility than the pure reflexivity of the Cartesian cogito. Thus, Alanis Morissette’s musical writing, which in this study is limited to two of the Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie’s lyrics (1998), corroborates the notion of an unstable self because, by belonging to the autobiographical and self-representative genre, it exposes fractures within the texts, similar to the ones that characterize the different selves to which the lyrics stands for. It’s a case of articulation between form and content.

Keywords : Self-representation; metalogue; paralipsis; discourse.

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