Myths of Origin and Myths of the Future in Larissa Lai's Salt Fish Girl

  • Elizabeth C. Harmer McMaster University

Abstract


"The present exists as a tension between the way things have always been and the way things ought to be. Myth . . . is all about this dialectic of past and future; it is a narrative whose beginning and ending always inform the middle". (Laurence Coupe on Paul Ricoeur, Myth 97)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2218/forum.01.541
Published
12-Dec-2005
How to Cite
Harmer, Elizabeth. 2005. “Myths of Origin and Myths of the Future in Larissa Lai’s Salt Fish Girl”. FORUM: University of Edinburgh Postgraduate Journal of Culture & The Arts, no. 01 (December). https://doi.org/10.2218/forum.01.541.
Issue
No 01 (2005): Origins & Originality
Section
Articles

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