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From:NWSA Journal (Vol. 14, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedUntil 1999, major works in disability studies tended to ignore the influential body theories of Judith Butler, or to argue that her theories relied upon the disabled body as a constitutive Other. Between 1999 and 2001,...
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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: Literature in Exile of East and Central Europe[(essay date 2009) In the following essay, Velickovic studies the position of the exiled writer and relationship of her situation to gender in Ugrešić’s The Ministry of Pain. She explores the representation of “the...
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From: Truth, Reconciliation, and Evil[(essay date 2004) In the essay below, Breen contrasts the 2002 film Spider-man with Moraga's "A Long Line of Vendidas" in an attempt to demonstrate the gendered nature of power dynamics.] Call me your own...
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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: Studies in the Novel[(essay date summer 1999) In the following essay, Rhine argues that Mishima's novel Confessions of a Mask can best be understood through the later chapters of the novel, in which the work becomes "theatrical" in its...
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From: Philip Roth Studies[(essay date fall 2006) In this essay, Byers examines representations of the body in relation to cultural identity in Jen's Mona in the Promised Land and compares them to similar representations in Philip Roth's 1959...
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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: College Literature[(essay date June 1994) In the following essay, Walton examines the way homoerotic desire is represented in Nabokov's Pale Fire.] Kinbote's homosexuality ... is a metaphor for the artist's minority view of a bad world,...
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From: Queerdom: Gender Displacements in a Transnational Context[(essay date 2009) In the following essay, Iuliano discusses the literal and figurative “monstrousness” of Invisible Monsters’s female protagonist, a former fashion model who is horribly disfigured in a car crash....
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From:Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism (Vol. 155. )[(essay date 2005) In the following essay, Branche discusses the conditions under which Manzano suffered as a slave and how his memoir is a particularly revealing commentary on the master-slave relationship.] Spare me,...
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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: Feminist Review[(essay date autumn 1999) In the following essay, Lindenmeyer discusses Winterson's reconciliation of postmodern and feminist views of the female body in Written on the Body, highlighting the novel's critique of...
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From: Beyond Hegel and Nietzsche: Philosophy, Culture, and Agency[(essay date 2000) In the following introduction to his comparative study of Nietzsche and Hegel, Jurist outlines the main points of his book, which generally argues that there are important areas of agreement between...
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From: Children's Literature[(essay date 2002) In the following essay, McGavran attempts to construct a clearer definition of the relationship between Phineas and Gene in A Separate Peace, discussing whether Gene wanted to be like, be with, or...
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From: Journal[(essay date autumn-spring 2000-2001) In the following essay, Hanlon examines Larsen's portrayal of passing and the meaning of race in Passing.] 1. Over the past ten years, Nella Larsen's 1929 novel Passing has...
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From: MELUS[(essay date summer 2001) In the following essay, Diana asserts that Far's short fiction functions to deconstruct stereotypes of "Orientalism" through her treatment of such themes as bi-racial identity, interracial...
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From: Nebula[(essay date September 2006) Below, Croisy's essay critiques conventional trauma theory as it is played out at the institutionalized level of the nation-state. She uses the works of Silko and Judith Butler to support her...
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From: Modern Drama[(essay date summer 2001) In the following essay, Jerez-Farrán interprets the text, theme, and structure of The Public, claiming that the work deals "unabashedly, even defiantly, with the subject of homosexuality."] Of...
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From: Textual Practice[(essay date Spring 1992) In the following essay, Morris argues that Kristeva's ideas offer the "best direction for an optimistic Marxist-feminist practice and theory."] Theory has lost some of the glamour of success....