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differences (2024) 35 (3): 178–201.
Published: 01 December 2024
... organizations) NoViolet Bulawayo We Need New Names white savior narrative In Giving an Account of Oneself , Judith Butler asks how we narrate our own lives and what this means for accountability to the lives of others. At the heart of Butler’s book—and the act of self-narration—lies the ethical...
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differences (2024) 35 (3): 224–236.
Published: 01 December 2024
... limits. Paustian’s account shows how “the white savior narrative” operates through “a suspiciously coherent plot” that effaces the ways the African continent’s own efforts at self-care are already underway (197). Finally, this volume asks us to rethink the fundamental insights of Giving an Account...
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differences (1992) 4 (1): 172–204.
Published: 01 April 1992
... then be differentiated as potential murderer and savior - is when Arnold riffles in Sarah Connor's drawer to find her picture. This brings him to the point that Reese already occupies, since knowing what the "real" Sarah Connor looks like is the single piece of information that Reese has that keeps him one step ahead...
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differences (2023) 34 (3): 106–128.
Published: 01 December 2023
... a modicum of power within the ghetto. He also focuses on Rumkowski’s inner life and reflects on the kind of self-delusion that seemed to protect him from shame. Levi suggests that Rumkowski probably saw himself as “a messiah, a savior of his people, whose welfare, at least at intervals, he must have...
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differences (2015) 26 (3): 116–141.
Published: 01 November 2015
... in that a man rescues a victimized woman and the savior ends up becoming her lover. Marcia Landy summarizes the narrative convention of this type of melodrama: “The victims are most often females threatened in their sexuality, their property, their very identity. Often orphaned, subjected to cruel and arbitrary...
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differences (2019) 30 (2): 1–29.
Published: 01 September 2019
... machinated by whiteness, coloniality, and Christianity. As the narrative surrounding the atrocity literally dissolves across Philip’s poem, ruth constantly shifts as a figuration for understanding how state violence acts upon differently racialized, sexualized, and gendered bodies. When Ruth declares...
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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 (2018) 29 (2): 96–125.
Published: 01 September 2018
... victimized by the accuser. And as a white woman married to a black man, Virginia Thomas was deployed as a white victim in a narrative of rape and blackness but with a profound difference. Thomas (in)famously called his confirmation hearing a high-tech lynching, evoking the idea of black woman Hill as a false...
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differences (2021) 32 (2): 69–93.
Published: 01 September 2021
... the fantasy that unifies lover, savior, and ally. 13 For Robyn Wiegman, the silent state of affairs in historical archives might have provoked questions for literary studies concerning “the absence of lesbian history in the slavery archive” (210). Instead of encircling this absence and what it legally...
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differences (1993) 5 (3): 179–204.
Published: 01 November 1993
... Hong Kong without repeating the compensatory logic and salvational motives of these familiar interpretations? Without attributing to Hong Kong the derogatory sense of lack nor thus the need of a savior, how might we go about describing its uniqueness and its difference - how might we go about thinking...
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differences (2007) 18 (3): 128–151.
Published: 01 December 2007
.... 2007 : 51 . Ditmore, Melissa. “ Trafficking in Lives—How Ideology Shapes Policy .” Kempadoo 107 -27. Doezema, Jo. “ Forced to Choose: Beyond the Voluntary vs. Forced Prostitution Dichotomy .” Kempadoo and Doezema 34 -51. ———. “Loose Women or Lost Women? The Re-emergence of the Myth of White...
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differences (2024) 35 (2): 157–183.
Published: 01 September 2024
... of the university “as a truth-seeking enterprise” ( Pidluzny 3 ), for the administration within the as-yet undestroyed though not unscathed university, crt-dei is often a fraught savior. The saved neoliberal university signifies its status as the chastened result of black activism 8 less by a broadening...
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differences (2001) 12 (1): 50–78.
Published: 01 May 2001
... them
as the saviors of a reunifi ed nation. In Birth, miscegenation can only be
envisaged as black rape and signifi es anarchy and the imminent destruc-
tion of the nation projected as a family romance of whiteness...
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differences (1997) 9 (1): 95–128.
Published: 01 April 1997
..., rules. The in-between, the ambiguous, the composite. The traitor, the liar, the criminal with a good conscience, the shameless rapist, the killer who claims he is a savior. Any crime, because it draws attention to the fragility of the law, is abject, but premeditated crime, cunning murder, hypocritical...
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differences (2018) 29 (2): 126–153.
Published: 01 September 2018
... to Date a White Guy .” Offbeat Marriage: Sharing the Gift of Extra-Challenging Unions . http://offbeatmarriage.com/black-women-dating-crisis/ ( accessed 3 Mar. 2018 ). Anderson Halima . “ ‘I Think You Glorify White Men and Make Them Out as Saviors .’” Dateawhiteguy (blog). 3 June 2009...
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differences (2023) 34 (3): 79–105.
Published: 01 December 2023
..., with body and soul, both in life and death, am not my own, but belong unto my faithful Savior Jesus Christ, who with his precious blood [. . .].” This giving of one’s own body, its flesh and blood, and one’s own soul, Toller intimates, is the essence of both Communion and communication, and both lie...
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differences (2024) 35 (2): 132–156.
Published: 01 September 2024
... happiness (37). Other times, we are triumphantly heralded as saviors, recruited to serve as symbols of our fields’ (our institutions’, our nations’) commitments to progress and capacities to resolve their internal strife. The cosmic phenomenon of the black hole, too, “gets in the way” of what Prescod...
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differences (1996) 8 (2): 127–152.
Published: 01 July 1996
..., at the same time betray a barely concealed terror ojthe other? Does not this narrative, and the masochistic logic that drives it, represent the last, desperate stand of the embattled white male imagining himself "the new nigger," now grown enraged and paranoid at seeing his power challenged not only by 142...
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differences (1992) 4 (3): 38–65.
Published: 01 November 1992
..., and his struggle to find an artistic language which will reflect his complex thoughts. In his letters Kandinsky calls Munter his "Goddess," "Life-Source," "Heavenly Messenger," and "Savior Angel." "You are my solace," he says in September 1905, "[m]y light, my idol" (Munter/Eichner 20 Sept. 1905...
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differences (2012) 23 (3): 161–196.
Published: 01 December 2012
...; that is, the aquarium visitor is entertained
into caring about environmental ethics and marine biology. Enacting a
moral imperative to protect local ecosystems, the aquarium is a savior.
As such, the parochial becomes the new cosmopolitan...
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