...Icons and Archetypes ...

..., the principal theme of this chapter is to show how the archetype of “the Paulista Woman” imbued the female participants in the uprising with specific racial and class attributes and depoliticized women’s entrance into the public sphere. It also considers the limits of acceptable forms of participation for women...

... “Trick Dive” is a sexually explicit short story drawing on the author's experiences as a trans-rage-fueled leather domme, set in an archetypal waterfront dive bar. It is told from the point of view of a trans sex worker confronting a man who wants something from her—knowledge. The knowledge he...

... invisibility (absence, un-image-ability), and hypervisibility (a visual archetype conflated with the “spectacle of terror”) by analyzing two films by the acclaimed Palestinian director Elia Suleiman. The chapter’s reading of Suleiman’s films further highlights the different mechanisms involved in rendering...

... of this chapter is to show how the archetype of “the Paulista Woman” imbued the female participants in the uprising with specific racial and class attributes and depoliticized women’s entrance into the public sphere. It also considers the limits of acceptable forms of participation for women in an armed uprising...

... fiction market of Christopher Nicole. The essay considers Jean Rhys’s Wide Sargasso Sea (1966) as an archetypal archipelagic form that not only encompasses the wide circum-Atlantic region (Jamaica, Dominica, England) but also elucidates the political vision of the white trash Caribbean pulp fictions...

... the twofold position of the circulating image of the Palestinian marked by both invisibility (absence, un-image-ability), and hypervisibility (a visual archetype conflated with the “spectacle of terror”) by analyzing two films by the acclaimed Palestinian director Elia Suleiman. The chapter’s reading...

.... While critics dismiss outfit photos as a redundant and monotonous cultural form and practice, chapter 3 insists that their formal and generic repetition is a value-making process. How Asian superbloggers’ outfit photos, archetypes that other outfit photos as well as professional fashion photos have...

... works of Edgar Mittelholzer to their mutation in the burgeoning popular fiction market of Christopher Nicole. The essay considers Jean Rhys’s Wide Sargasso Sea (1966) as an archetypal archipelagic form that not only encompasses the wide circum-Atlantic region (Jamaica, Dominica, England) but also...

...Trans Sanfrisco “Trick Dive” is a sexually explicit short story drawing on the author's experiences as a trans-rage-fueled leather domme, set in an archetypal waterfront dive bar. It is told from the point of view of a trans sex worker confronting a man who wants something from her—knowledge...