The writerly skin: The potential of the limit in representing Anglo-Burmese mixed-race subjectivity
Published in Double Dialogues
Drawing from the work of psychoanalyst, Didier Anzieu and filmmaker, Trinh T Minh-Ha, this paper examines the affects of limit on writing in George Orwell’s novel Burmese Days and explores the ethical and aesthetic implications of writing as limit.
In my writing I represent the Anglo-Burmese in colonial Burma and thus, I begin this paper with a question: how does a writer represent mixed-race subjectivity within the English-language literary tradition in a way that is ethically and artistically satisfying?