The Genealogy of No-Self: Marguerite Yourcenar’s Koan of the Labyrinth

Genealogy

Joyce Janca-Aji¹ 

[1] Department of World Languages and Cultures, Coe College, 1220 First Ave N.E., Cedar Rapids, IA 52402, USA;

关键词: autobiography;    geneaology;    self-writing;    Buddhist;    Yourcenar;   

DOI  :  10.3390/genealogy4040108

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

20th-century French author, Marguerite Yourcenar, prefaces the first volume of her autobiographical/genealogical trilogy, Dear Departed with a 13th-century Zen koan: What is your original face before your parents were born? In the context of the meticulously researched family history of her maternal line, Yourcenar examines the foundations and major resources of individual and collective self-writing in light of Buddhist discourses on the nature of self, while offering an incisive critique of and alternative to the function of genealogical inquiry.

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