RT Journal Article
T1 “Being then nothing” Physicality, abjection and creation in Janice Galloway’s short fiction
A1 Sacido Romero, Jorge
K1 Janice Galloway
K1 Short Fiction
K1 The Body
K1 Abjection
K1 Being
K1 Death
K1 Kristeva
K1 Blanchot
AB This  article  explores  the  prominence  of  the  body  in  Janice  Galloway‟s  short  fiction.  Drawing  mainly  on Kristeva‟s  notions  of  the  semiotic  and  the  abject,  the  argument initially establishesthe  central  place ofphysicality  in  Galloway‟s  poetics.  Her  creative  project  is  inspired  by  a  desire  to  transmit  in  writing  the experience of being alive, of howbeing is intrinsically fragile, inexorably bound to extinction. In a particularly sharp manner that engages the reader more actively than her novels, her short stories exhibit both formally and thematically an interaction of the  symbolic and the semiotic. As being attentive  to life  entails an awareness of death if one is to write realistically, the ensuing discussion of stories from her three collections –Blood (1991), Where  you  find  it (1996)  and Jellyfish (2015)–reveals  that  abjection,  the  extreme  version  of  the  semiotic  that threatens to cancel out the symbolic, is paramount in her creative universe.
PB Universidad de Murcia
SN 1578-7044
YR 2019
FD 2019
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10347/21067
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10347/21067
LA eng
NO Sacido Romero, J. (2019). “Being then nothing”. International Journal of English Studies, 19(1), 133-150. https://doi.org/10.6018/ijes.348531
NO This article is part of the research carried out in the project Intersections: Gender and Identity in the Short Fiction of Contemporary British Women Writersfunded by the Ministry of   Science, Innovation and Universities, Government of Spain  (FEM2017-83084-P –AEI/FEDER) and the Competitive Reference Research Group Discourse and Identity (GRC2015/002  GI-1924–Xunta  de  Galicia)
DS Minerva
RD 29 abr 2026