Exploring Image Culture Through Narrative:An Analysis on Jennifer Egan's The Invisible Circus
The lnvisible Circus, Jennifer Egan' s first fiction published in 1995, has started her fiction-writing career.It focuses on an eighteen-year-old girl Phoebe who has always been haunted by the mysterious death of her hippie older sister and attracted by the 1960s generation, searching for her own identity.This article analyzes the narrative strategies in The Invisible Circus, illustrating that by mainly employing internal focalization to reflect Phoebe' s elder sister Faith who represents the 1960s generation, The Invisible Circus begins to look at some ofthe issues around the image culture and to examine the role of media representation in the 1960s counterculture.
Jennifer EganThe Invisible Circusinternal focalizationimage culture
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