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From: Trauma and Its Representations: The Social Life of Mimesis in Post-Revolutionary France[(essay date 2001) In the following essay, Jenson problematizes Sand's use of analogy, particularly her overarching analogy between marriage and slavery, in Indiana.] The Colonial Social Life of Mimesis In recent...
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From: Faulkner Journal[(essay date fall-spring 2002-03) In the following essay, Parker argues that Faulkner's Indian stories, particularly "Red Leaves," illuminate his preoccupation with themes of masculinity, race, and ownership.] In 1930,...
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From: International Fiction Review[(essay date 2000) In the essay below, Ty centers on the nexus point of colonialist and indigenous confrontation to examine the ways in which Ondaatje challenges Western concepts of the middle and far East in The English...
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From: Arizona Quarterly[(essay date summer 1999) In the following essay, Wolfe suggests that Congo offers a radical analysis of the discourse of speciesism while, at the same time and in a contradictory fashion, affirming human primacy.] I...
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From: World Literature Today[(essay date winter 1995) In the following essay, Scott offers a postfeminist reading of The Book of Promethea, maintaining that Cixous "does not concern herself solely with the situation of women; her interest rather is...
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From: The Strategic Smorgasbord of Postmodernity: Literature and the Christian Critic[(essay date 2007) In the essay below, Hogeterp-Koopman formulates a theory of postcolonialism for Christians that is informed by Bhabha's ideas about cultural hybridity.] In his "Theses on the Philosophy of History"...
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From: Passages: Movements and Moments in Text and Theory[(essay date 2009) In the following essay, Harte applies Homi K. Bhabha’s theories about borders to close readings of three of Lahiri’s stories and to the means by which the immigrant characters construct identity as...
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From: Letras Femeninas[(essay date 2000) In the following essay, Mato argues that The Miracle Worker “breaks the fixed dichotomy between masculine and feminine forms by creating a hybrid moment in which these two opposites are intermingled...
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From: The Pre-Occupation of Postcolonial Studies[(interview date 2000) In the following interview, Bhabha describes how his cultural theories grew out of his experiences in India and his original desire to be a poet. Bhabha then proceeds to comment upon culture wars...
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From: Colby Quarterly[(essay date 2001) In the following essay, Chilcoat discusses gender, race, and identity in Ourika and in films from the 1930s starring Josephine Baker, an African American actress who later became a French citizen....
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From: The Ethnic Canon: Histories, Institutions, and Interventions[(essay date 1995) In the following essay, Saldívar examines Paredes's poetry as an exploration of Chicano culture's relationship to modernism.] Nations, like narratives, lose their origins in the myths of time and...
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From: Modern Language Studies[(essay date 8 March 2003) In this essay, originally presented as an introductory address at the March 8, 2003, meeting of the Northeast Modern Language Association, which featured Bhabha as keynote speaker, De Abruña...
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From: Diacritics[(essay date summer 2005) In the following essay, Prabhu analyzes how Glissant's use of language and subjectivity informs his attempt to salvage autonomy in a hybridized world. Prabhu also suggests that Glissant's...
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From: ARIEL[(essay date January 2001) In the following essay, Najita discusses similarities between indigenous Maori culture and the Pakeha (non-native) nationalism represented in The Piano.] The capacity to live with difference...
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From: Cultural Transformations: Perspectives on Translocation in a Global Age[(essay date 2010) In the following essay, McLaughlin traces the allusions to Dante's Inferno in Oyster and The Last Magician, contending that Hospital uses the medieval text to shed new light on social injustices in...
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From: Studies in the Novel[(essay date spring 2000) In the following essay, Brown maintains that the darkness in Heart of Darkness produces a larger "cultural psychosis."] Therein consists the most elementary formal definition of psychosis: the...
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From: Diacritics[(essay date 1996) In the following essay, Jussawalla argues that in order to truly understand Salman Rushdie's literary and artistic intent in The Satanic Verses, it is important to place the work in context as both a...
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From: Modern Fiction Studies[(essay date spring 2002) In the essay below, Shemak analyzes how Danticat "deconstructs Dominican nationalism and produces a history of the Trujillo era" through the testimony of Amabelle Désir in The Farming of Bones.]...
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From: South Atlantic Quarterly[(essay date winter 2007) In this essay, Legrás compares phenomenology (both poetics and discourse) with poststructuralism as approaches to understanding subaltern resistance, relying on Bhabha's ideas about language and...
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From: Diacritics[(essay date spring 1996) In the following essay, Jussawalla underscores the centrality of Muslim culture in India, and the Mughal/Muslim/Indian tradition, to Salman Rushdie's novel The Satanic Verses, arguing that...