1-20 of 63

Search Results for melancholy gender

Follow your search
Access your saved searches in your account

Would you like to receive an alert when new items match your search?
Close Modal
Sort by
Journal Article
differences (2017) 28 (3): 44–66.
Published: 01 December 2017
... of melancholy gender, the author contends that this subjectivity enables a recognition of the same-sex love and desire prohibited by heterosexist culture through an enactment of its loss. As such, avatar suicide videos dramatize death in order to create an important space of public grieving in which...
Journal Article
differences (2003) 14 (2): 134–170.
Published: 01 September 2003
... in Jamaica Kincaid's My Brother.”PMLA 117 ( 2002 ): 265 -77. Butler, Judith. “Melancholy Gender/Refused Identification.” The Psychic Life of Power: Theories in Subjection . Stanford: Stanford UP, 1997 . 132 -50. Callahan, John F. The Illusions of a Nation: Myth and History in the Novels of F...
Journal Article
differences (2014) 25 (2): 116–129.
Published: 01 September 2014
..., melancholy—are key factors in neoliberal politics and aesthetics. What Ziarek’s book shows us is the gendered dimension of these politics and aesthetics and how neoliberalism co-opts women’s resistance strategies, plugging them back...
Journal Article
differences (1995) 7 (2): 111–126.
Published: 01 July 1995
... outgrow in order to enter the social contract and find his place within it. Mourning is the ideological process by which the hero's melancholy of gender undergoes its socialization by reversing the process of unrepre'ssing and reestablishing the taboo. I use the masculine deliberately since...
Journal Article
differences (2010) 21 (1): 137–148.
Published: 01 May 2010
... “The Management of Grief”? Perhaps a related “melancholy of gender” might be deduced from Maxine Hong Kingston’s autobiographical medi- tation on a mother teaching her daughter not to speak about...
Journal Article
differences (2014) 25 (2): 101–115.
Published: 01 September 2014
... of gender and race, the author examines complex relations between political and aesthetic transformations, stressing their relation to gender and race differences as well as the role of materiality in political contestation and aesthetic invention. The theory of feminist aesthetics discussed here traces...
Journal Article
differences (2006) 17 (1): 47–87.
Published: 01 May 2006
...: On the Discursive Limits of Sex . London: Routledge, 1993 . ____. Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity . London: Routledge, 1990 . Caygill, Howard. Walter Benjamin: The Colour of Experience . New York: Routledge, 1998 . Cheng, Anne Anlin. The Melancholy of Race: Psychoanalysis...
Journal Article
differences (1995) 7 (3): 1–23.
Published: 01 November 1995
... of apostrophe; for its compelling demonstration of the difference gender makes in the deployment of rhetorical figures and in negotiating the literal-figurative threshold. Over time, however, my feeling grew stronger that something about this essay did not add up. Yet simply dropping the essay and the issues...
Journal Article
differences (2016) 27 (3): 20–44.
Published: 01 December 2016
...Erin Shevaugn Schlumpf This essay examines Marguerite Duras’s Moderato cantabile (1958) and Wang Anyi’s The Song of Everlasting Sorrow (1995) to propose a feminine melancholy manifested in these novels. It argues that the work of Duras and Wang functions allegorically, revealing a tension between...
Journal Article
differences (1999) 11 (3): 1–28.
Published: 01 December 1999
.... 1789 ): 470 –73;539–42. Malthus, Thomas Robert. An Essay on The Principles of Population (1798) . Ed. Philip Appleman. New York: Norton, 1976 . “The Melancholy Effects of Seduction. A Letter From a Gentleman to His Friend, Relating the Melancholy Effects of Seduction.” The Massachusetts...
Journal Article
differences (2009) 20 (1): 87–101.
Published: 01 May 2009
... Studies at Princeton University. She is the author of The Melancholy of Race: Psychoanalysis, Assimilation, and Hidden Grief (Oxford University Press, 2001). She is currently working on a study of Josephine Baker as a fulcrum through which to explore the relationship between the modern ideal...
Journal Article
differences (2018) 29 (3): 86–106.
Published: 01 December 2018
... lose sight of the affective dimensions (which are also political and ethical) of mourning and melancholy by insisting on the productive and relational dimensions of these affects. 12 Furthermore, the specific quality of each affect is sometimes lost in recent arguments about these affects. Mourning...
FIGURES
Journal Article
differences (1994) 6 (2-3): 199–207.
Published: 01 July 1994
... the symbolic order. Mr. Hope argues that these feminist readings reproduce a normative hermeneutics at the site of the sexed body and also make it constitutive of the social field. He takes my suspicion of male gender-benders and female impersonators as extremely revealing in this respect. My answer...
Journal Article
differences (1994) 6 (2-3): 174–198.
Published: 01 July 1994
... of the most striking recurrent themes in psychoanalytic political theorization of modernity is that of loss. Rosi Braidotti, in Patterns oj Dissonance, is concerned not only to identify the sense of loss that afflicts us as contemporary subjects, but also to provide a political account of the gendered nature...
Journal Article
differences (2003) 14 (3): 57–88.
Published: 01 December 2003
.... Carroll, Noël. “Hume's Standard of Taste.” Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 43 ( 1984 ): 181 -94. Deleuze, Gilles. Cinema 2: The Time-Image . Trans. Hugh Tomlinson and Robert Galeta. Minneapolis: u of Minnesota p, 1989 . de Lauretis, Teresa. Technologies of Gender: Essays on Theory...
Journal Article
differences (2014) 25 (2): 130–137.
Published: 01 September 2014
.... Yet, with the Cold War effacement of the political presumably behind us and with the ascent of critical gender and minority studies before us, where do women and writers of color fit into the dominant narrative of modernism...
Journal Article
differences (2024) 35 (2): 79–88.
Published: 01 September 2024
... and in the past have negotiated expressions of gendered identity and queer intimacies. Likewise, scholars working in queer of color critique have examined the role of racialization in the instrumentalization of gender and sexuality in formations of nationalism, capitalism, and neoliberalism, as well as how...
Journal Article
differences (1996) 8 (3): 128–147.
Published: 01 November 1996
... . Trans. Ashton E. B. . New York : Continuum , 1983 . Buck-Morss Susan . The Origin of Negative Dialectics: Theodor Adorno, Walter Benjamin, and the Frankfurt Institute . New York : Free P , 1977 . Butler Judith . Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity...
Journal Article
differences (2021) 32 (2): 1–38.
Published: 01 September 2021
... Drew . The Melancholy Assemblage: Affect and Epistemology in the English Renaissance . New York : Fordham UP , 2013 . Davis Colin . Critical Excess: Overreading in Derrida, Deleuze, Levinas, Žižek, and Cavell . Stanford : Stanford UP , 2010 . Davis Lennard . Obsession...
Journal Article
differences (1994) 6 (2-3): 100–125.
Published: 01 July 1994
.... Apositive, mobile, denaturalization of gender and national identity becomes a negative, melancholic homelessness. The structures of melancholy that differentiate the two women from one another-Minotschka's loss of the mother, Marta's of the father-also motivate their erotic relation to one another...