Title: Because the sun /
Authors: Burgoyne, Sarah
Year: 2021
Abstract: "Camus&#x2019;s Meursault and Thelma and Louise meet up under the blazing sun. Obsessed with both Camus&#x2019;s L&#x2019;étranger and Thelma and Louise, Because the Sun considers violence under the blazing sun. Starting with Meursault&#x2019;s murder of a man on the beach as he is “pressed” by the blinding sun and considering the gendered violence against the victim&#x2019;s sister, Sarah Burgoyne goes on to consider Louise pulling the trigger on Thelma&#x2019;s assailant &#x2013; all while thinking about the sun, that “unremarkable star” that is a material symbol of pain, an affective backlog we&#x2019;re slung under, pushing through desert after desert. Because the Sun&#x2019;s pastiche of personal and “objective” (often scientific) voices strives to embody both stylistic and formal “relentlessness” by teasing out discursive tonalities that blend and merge into each other, generating a blinding effect, like looking into the sun."--