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From: College Literature[(review date October 1994) In the following review of Bodies That Matter, Cotter terms Butler a "ludic" materialist who fails to adequately acknowledge the inherent values of historical materialism.] Since the late...
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From: American Literature[(essay date March 1996) In the following essay, Spahr examines Hejinian's unconventional approach to the conventions of autobiography as well as to the crisis in representation associated with postmodernism.] Both...
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From: Modern Fiction Studies[(essay date winter 2002) In the following essay, Baldwin investigates the influence of D. H. Lawrence's "The Lovely Lady," communist notions of self-identity, and culturally determined concepts of sexual transgression...
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From: Differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies[(essay date summer 1995) In the following essay, Weil examines themes of melancholia and exile--both psychological and political--in Claire de Duras's Ourika and François-René Chateaubriand's Réné.] Alienation,...
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From: Reconstructing Pain and Joy: Linguistic, Literary and Cultural Perspectives[(essay date 2008) In the essay below, Sakellaridou charges the U.S. government with the systematic oppression of rituals of grief by society's marginalized, such as those staged in Kennedy's Funnyhouse of a Negro, Wendy...
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From: Lessing, Goethe, Kleist, and the Transformation of Gender: From Hermaphrodite to Amazon[(essay date 2003) In the following excerpt, ter Horst examines Lessing's representation of gender roles in the context of evolving notions about sex and gender identity in the eighteenth century. She draws on historical...
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From: MELUS[(essay date summer 2005) In the following essay, Stanley outlines her teaching of Smith's Twilight in a college English class, reporting on the reactions of her students concerning racial differences.] Since the early...
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From: International Fiction Review[(essay date January 2006) In the following essay, Collado-Rodríguez asserts that in Middlesex Eugenides offers "a kaleidoscopic revision of twentieth-century U.S. history that compels him to reinterpret the American...
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From: Passing and the Fictions of Identity[(essay date 1996) In the following essay, Rohy analyzes how the questions of origin and identity in Giovanni's Room relate to the concepts of passing and nostalgia.] "America is my country and Paris is my hometown,"...
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From: South Central Review[(essay date spring 1999) In the following essay, Gery discusses Brooks's complicated and nuanced use of parody in her early poems' examination of the construction of racial and sexual identity.] Exhaust the little...
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From: Queer Iberia: Sexualities, Cultures, and Crossings from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance[(essay date 1999) In the following essay, Perry examines the story of the historical Catalina de Erauso, the Spanish "Nun-Lieutenant" who dressed in male clothing and sought to make herself into a man.] The singularly...
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From: Positions[(essay date fall 2002) In the following essay, Morinaga argues that the development of female impersonators in Kabuki had a fundamental influence on the construction of gender in Japan.] Beyond the studies of Japanese...
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From: Journal of Narrative Theory
'Nothing More' and 'Nothing Definite': First Wives in Elizabeth Gaskell's Wives and Daughters (1866)
[(essay date winter 2004) In the following essay, Masters centers on the significance of the primacy of first wives in Gaskell's novel Wives and Daughters.] Early in Wives and Daughters, Hamley, the aging country... -
From: Gender, Identity, and Representation in Spain's Golden Age[(essay date 2000) In the following essay, Stroud uses Judith Butler's theory of gender to analyze Calderón's comic play White Hands Don't Offend.] Spanish comedia brims with examples of fluid gender identification....
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From: Contemporary Literature[(essay date fall 2008) In the following essay, Shostak explores the idea that in Eugenides's Middlesex, the metaphor of hybridity refers "at once to the body, to cultural identity, and to narrative structure."] The...
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From: Modern Drama[(essay date spring 1999) In the following essay, Amoko argues that Churchill's Cloud Nine repeatedly equates gender and sexual oppression with racial and colonial oppression.] ... colonialism has long served as a...
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From: Studies in Canadian Literature[(essay date 2001) In the following essay, Lesk and Stolar maintain that Spit Delaney's inner journey, as represented in the first and last stories of Spit Delaney's Island, hinges on his eventual acceptance of...
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From: Extrapolation[(essay date spring 2002) In the following essay, Jesser examines themes of race and gender in Butler's writing along with her treatment of the female body.] For feminist critics eager to claim the most prominent...
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From: The Germanic Review[(essay date summer 1998) In the following essay, Downing asserts that Keller's retelling of the stories of other writers is interesting because of the author's realism and because he so obviously calls attention to this...
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From: Criticism[(essay date fall 2003) In the following essay, Rottenberg suggests that Larsen's portrayal of the effect of racial norms is ambivalent: while Irene Westover Redfield is controlled by these norms, Clare Kendry Bellew to...