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differences (1991) 3 (1): 1–19.
Published: 01 April 1991
... in Context .” Feminist Studies 7 ( 1981 ): 264 - 87 . White Hayden . “ The Value of Narrativity in the Representation of Reality .” On Narrative . Ed. Mitchell W. J. T. . Chicago : U of Chicago P , 1981 . 1 - 23 . White Hayden . Metahistory: The Historical Imagination...
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differences (2024) 35 (2): 79–88.
Published: 01 September 2024
...Amber Jamilla Musser The unresolved problematic at the center of Evelynn Hammonds’s “Black (W)holes and the Geometry of Black Female Sexuality” is that of representation. The importance of representation, she argues, lies in its ability to highlight alternative modes of being and thinking. Though...
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differences (2013) 24 (2): 130–149.
Published: 01 September 2013
... of transgender representations in early modern China. Li Yu’s works demonstrate that the representation and performance of ambiguous or trans genders was linked to elite male consumption: that is, transgressive gender presentations were a prime form of entertainment, in fiction as in theater. However, his...
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differences (2016) 27 (1): 1–24.
Published: 01 May 2016
... that escape other modes of representation. Beauty’s work is neither presentation nor representation, but something like an artificial alternative to birth. © 2016 by Brown University and differences : A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies 2016 This content is made freely available by the publisher...
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differences (2009) 20 (1): 102–116.
Published: 01 May 2009
...Lyndsey Stonebridge Why is it that we respond to the deaths of others in wartime with an apparent indifference? What is it about our desire that so readily accommodates the representation of the death of others? This article addresses these questions through a reading of Freud's 1915 essay on war...
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differences (2011) 22 (2-3): 31–53.
Published: 01 December 2011
... and the representations of this process in audio-technical discourse. The article focuses on two metaphorical frames commonly applied to signal processing in the everyday language of musicians and audio technologists: cooking and travel. Through a reading of Claude Lévi-Strauss, it suggests that metaphors of rawness...
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differences (2019) 30 (1): 82–90.
Published: 01 May 2019
...Terrance Wooten “Sex offender” is used in two senses. First, it is a legal category that defines individuals who have been convicted of specific sex crimes. These crimes range in degree and severity but predominantly consider themes of violence, predation, and propriety. In popular representation...
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differences (2010) 21 (1): 178–193.
Published: 01 May 2010
... of representation, can one then say that representations are theories? Drawing on the work of Alain Badiou, Gilles Deleuze, and Slavoj Žižek, this essay explores these questions through the notion of the event, considering how our theories manage the terror of the contingency of events. Psychoanalysis...
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differences (2012) 23 (1): 62–100.
Published: 01 May 2012
...Dierdra Reber This essay seeks to explain the persistent representation of affect and the senses in the cultural narrative of globalization. The author proposes that we are currently witnessing an epistemic shift from reason to affect, a shift that may be traced to the birth of free-market...
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differences (2013) 24 (3): 101–126.
Published: 01 December 2013
... at self-representation, remain substantial obstacles to a nuanced understanding of the complicated relationship between aesthetic and material production. The article concludes with an inquiry into the specific work that discourse on cultural capital accomplishes in the contemporary global academy...
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differences (2024) 35 (1): 74–96.
Published: 01 May 2024
..., compounding affect in coexperienced dynamics and their representations, the author unpacks scenes of intersubjectivity in the television series Killing Eve ( bbc America, 2018–22). [email protected] © 2024 by Brown University and differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies 2024 affect...
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differences (2018) 29 (2): 204–212.
Published: 01 September 2018
... the civil status of gay people as a counterpoint to the failure of matrimonial rights to do the same for heterosexual African Americans. This essay considers some of the assumptions about race, racism, and racial representation that underpin the architecture of Franke’s argument and the meaning of “black...
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differences (2018) 29 (3): 107–136.
Published: 01 December 2018
... potentially mitigated, by that very representationality. Emphasizing the representation-ality of the image is itself a strategy for managing a male gaze that insists on seeing beyond the character, the story, the diegesis to directly apprehend the actress as a sexualized body. Indeed, not all women who appear...
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differences (2019) 30 (1): 119–125.
Published: 01 May 2019
...Juana María Rodríguez This essay uses the keyword testimony to explore how that term has been understood through law, literature, and social media. It explores the rhetorical demands of the hashtag #MeToo in relation to the demands of representation and interpretation to probe our affective...
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differences (2017) 28 (2): 24–45.
Published: 01 September 2017
... of representations that are repressed because they are forbidden or inadmissible in the cultural or social sphere. This essay explores the manifestations and the consequences of this act in the clinical practice and in the domain of aesthetics, arguing that the act is not merely the source of the subject’s troubles...
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differences (2018) 29 (1): 102–133.
Published: 01 May 2018
...Elizabeth Stewart Interrogating the politics of memory in contemporary German and Austrian representations of the “German Autumn” and its conclusion in late 1977, marked by the murder/suicide of the Red Army Faction’s early leadership in the Stammheim prison in Stuttgart, this essay highlights...
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differences (2010) 21 (1): 169–177.
Published: 01 May 2010
... and Out in Paris and London , the author asks whether there is a paucity of theory about poverty in contemporary discourses of identity and why that might be so. Orwell and Vollmann each offer a moralist anti-aesthetic and suspicion of rhetorical complexity commonly found in literary representations...
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differences (2011) 22 (1): 17–63.
Published: 01 May 2011
... value and on the critical analysis of diverse representations of the honor crime in Germany, Sweden, Palestine, Turkey, Jordan, and elsewhere, the author explores how the seductive power of the honor crime, mixing sexual titillation and moral horror, and its truly polymorphous interpretive capacity have...
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differences (2011) 22 (1): 111–145.
Published: 01 May 2011
... there.” Such representations, similar to what clocks do for the concept of time in Tanpinar's novel, end up in fact producing what is “out there.” What can I say of Dicle in one paragraph? It has been more than a year that she is gone, and she is still missed infinitely. She was a colleague and a mentor to me, and I...
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differences (2012) 23 (3): 197–205.
Published: 01 December 2012
... than claim that nature in its prerepresentational form is impossible to experience, she argues that nature itself consists of representations, and not just human-made ones. This essay, and, in its own way, each essay in the special issue it responds to, shows how the binaries operating in science were...
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