PATTERNS OF RETICENCE IN ISABEL ALLENDE’S “THE JAPANESE LOVER”
PATTERNS OF RETICENCE IN ISABEL ALLENDE’S “THE JAPANESE LOVER”

Summary/Abstract: Exploring the links between shame and reticence, this article examines the psychology of some of Isabel Allende’s characters in “The Japanese Lover”. Our contention is that their insecurities might have stemmed from anxieties about the nature of self-representation. What is more, we consider that shame is an appropriate affective marker of such anxiety because it occurs at the confluence between internal and external self-evaluation. Moreover, the paper attempts to analyse, the emancipation of the ignored voices in the novel and how Allende abridges women’s silence to empowerment.

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