Une esthétique du non-positionnement ? Du questionnement de l’idéologie dans les œuvres de Brian Castro

International audienceThis article aims to question the complex interaction between aesthetics and ideology on the Australian literary scene. Chinese-born author Brian Castro’s novels embody the tension between a critical impulse to categorize literary works in terms of political engagement in a multicultural society that tries to define its characteristics, and an aesthetic impulse to offer a work that stands outside any categories. The extent to which a work of art can actually set itself free from any ideology will be studied through the example of Brian Castro’s aesthetics. We shall analyze how Castro defines his works as using a minor key that enables his positioning to be subversive, which will lead us to question the role of language and its subversive possibilities and limits