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'This essay intends to highlight how Brian Castro's
Birds of Passage
(1983) and
After China
(1992) waver between transparency and opacity. It explores some of the techniques employed - among which a blurring of categories and a questioning of narratorial reliability
- in order to create what Roland Barthes calls a "text of bliss" - one which challenges the limits
of language as a means of communication.' (Author's abstract)
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Degrees of Transparency in Brian Castro's Birds of Passage and After China
Commonwealth Essays and Studies
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