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differences (2015) 26 (1): 117–140.
Published: 01 May 2015
...Madhavi Menon This essay argues that the politics of partition encourages an ever specialized particularism that also undergirds identity politics. In such a world of particulars, we become what our identities proclaim us to be. While accepting that differences exist, universalism interrupts...
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differences (2021) 32 (2): 1–38.
Published: 01 September 2021
... and becoming happy, successful citizens. Focusing on the persistent stereotype that associates academics and intellectuals (particularly in the humanities) with overanalysis, the essay offers a critique of the anti-intellectual conventions that underlie denunciations of overanalysis. It also demonstrates how...
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differences (2016) 27 (2): 178–197.
Published: 01 September 2016
...Éric Fassin In transatlantic sex wars, gender is supposedly alien to French culture, as if it were essentially American. This nationalist cliché can be turned upside down if one takes language seriously. Gender is not only, but it is also, a grammatical term, especially in French. It is omnipresent...
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differences (2008) 19 (3): 150–157.
Published: 01 December 2008
... to the tradition of the philosophy of nature and interpreting Butler as offering, in spite of her focus on the genealogy of claims about sex, also a theory of sex itself, a theory of sex as an effect entirely of gender. This approach to reading differs from Irigaray's own reading method of expanding...
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differences (2014) 25 (2): 33–61.
Published: 01 September 2014
... to the fear associated with one’s own or another’s death), but it also offers a persuasive account of the developmental movement in McCarthy’s novel. To what extent does The Road ’s horrific mise-en-scène comprise a labor of mourning and a working toward relation? This essay also pays particular attention...
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differences (2015) 26 (3): 43–53.
Published: 01 November 2015
... of the figure of machinery in Althusser’s work: stage machinery but also the machinery and apparatuses by which the world of subjection is simultaneously staged and disrupted. This theater is also a theater of war and as such is an authorless theater, a production in the double sense of the term of absent...
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differences (2014) 25 (3): 59–91.
Published: 01 December 2014
.... The typesetting is also an interpretation: the piece is written in three columns to evoke some of the questions surrounding the practice of medical interpretation as well as the interpretation of literature and lived experience. By framing the clinical encounter in such a way, I hope to show the connections...
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differences (2015) 26 (3): 116–141.
Published: 01 November 2015
..., the author examines the ways the film transforms the genre and conjures up an alternative socialist space, which also provides room for more fluid gender formations that radically redefine such notions as women and femininity . This essay also uncovers in the film an affective space contiguous with both...
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differences (2020) 31 (2): 30–57.
Published: 01 September 2020
...Andrew Kingston The music of the spectralist composer Claude Vivier is often considered through the lens of autobiography. However, from his abandonment as an infant to the circumstances of his murder at the age of thirty-four, certain aspects of Vivier’s life also seem to resist any...
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differences (2020) 31 (3): 29–47.
Published: 01 December 2020
...Frederik Tygstrup When literature engages in portraying the contemporary rule of finance and its impact on our lives, it also entails a transformation of the forms through which literature represents our lives. Over the last decades, as debt has become an ever more important motive in contemporary...
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differences (2023) 34 (1): 6–13.
Published: 01 May 2023
... of Bersani’s famous essay “Is the Rectum a Grave?,” Homos , the no less polemical book that follows it, also theorizes another position: coitus a tergo , the approach to what is behind from behind. Through a reading of Genet’s wartime erotic novel Funeral Rites , which is replete with a tergo couplings...
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differences (2023) 34 (1): 69–78.
Published: 01 May 2023
... . This conception of correspondence as friendly accord elucidates the notion of impersonal intimacy Bersani described earlier in the book as remaining in touch, through memory, with a god we followed. Correspondence also recalls Bersani’s earlier Baudelaire and Freud , where Baudelairean “Correspondances” signal...
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differences (2024) 35 (1): 97–133.
Published: 01 May 2024
..., but it has also kept our sights set, perhaps too set, on deciphering the Asian woman both in the context of romance and as an object of desire. This essay recasts the narrative of Asian/white sexuality as one of minoritarian retribution, making the argument that insofar as Asian femininity forms the object...
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differences (2021) 32 (3): 114–146.
Published: 01 December 2021
... illustrate the deep psychological and physical suffering that narrators experienced as they navigated the labyrinth of socially sanctioned practices in their communities. They also communicate lessons about deep structures of power and the blurred boundaries of religion and ritual. The narratives reveal...
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differences (2021) 32 (3): 1–24.
Published: 01 December 2021
... there exists a prohibition on mixing the types, and that the two core types themselves (geometry and arithmetic) are mutually intertwined using notions of hierarchy, foreignness, and priority. The author concludes that whatever incidental biases it may display, mathematics also contains an essential bias. 9...
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differences (2018) 29 (1): 1–32.
Published: 01 May 2018
... and mother could compensate for fluctuations in her husband’s income, these novels not only authorized women as household managers but also shifted the blame for the economic failure of the unit she supervised from the new wage economy onto her. Her success in this respect reproduced the economic inequities...
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differences (2018) 29 (1): 66–101.
Published: 01 May 2018
... on the Acropolis” (1936), provides the point of departure for exploring Freud’s analysis of the oceanic feeling and the ideal of universal love championed by Rolland, as well as the quite different kind of love advocated by Freud. Other themes germane to the late work of Freud are also explored, including...
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differences (2017) 28 (1): 94–123.
Published: 01 May 2017
... of Sighing” argues that Lavorare stanca continues the Italian lyric tradition that it also alters from within. The essay thus redefines Pavese’s procedure as a matter of staying in stagnation, of accepting rather than denying or taking willful distance from lyric’s exhaustion and the nation’s. © 2017...
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differences (2010) 21 (1): 109–123.
Published: 01 May 2010
... of belonging tied to dwelling articulated in the work of Martin Heidegger. It also strives to understand how the postcolonial emerges in ways quite distinct from any notion of identity, with its often unexamined claim to a politics of injury. The author considers the importance of theory as moving across...
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differences (2010) 21 (1): 137–148.
Published: 01 May 2010
... in feminist conversations but also its rise to a prominence that qualified its productivity both in the classroom and in doctoral dissertations. By reintegrating literature and literary history in discussions of theoretical insights, students can stretch, undermine, qualify, or extend them. Literary...
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