Being sent to Coventry: Silence, cruelty and Rachel Cusk's discrepant style

Harrison, Liam

Abstract

This chapter considers Cusk’s style across her most recent fiction and non-fiction, examining it as a site of discrepant tensions, torn between silence and expression, passivity and participation, objectivity and subjectivity, or as Cusk puts it, with characteristic gravitas in Aftermath (2012), ‘between the story and the truth’ .

• Online Publication Date: Jul 25, 2024
• Publication Date: Aug 22, 2024
• Deposit Date: Aug 29, 2024
• Publicly Available Date: Jan 26, 2025
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
• Book Title: Rachel Cusk: Contemporary Critical Perspectives
• Chapter Number: 7
• ISBN: 9781350370982
• Public URL: https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/12826035
• Publisher URL: https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/rachel-cusk-9781350370999/