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Publication details [#39434]

McGarry, Teresa. 2004. It was because of that that I spoke’: Self-justification in Wijesinghe’s ‘Roots’. Text 24 (1) : 31–58.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
discourse analysis | justifying | literature | self-presentation | short story
Place, Publisher
Walter de Gruyter
Journal WWW
www.degruyter.de/journals/order/en.start.html

Annotation

This analysis examines the narrator's speech in Wijesinghe’s first-person short story ‘Roots’ as a complex act of self-justification.