... to represent more than the trails of a traveling drag queen. Maria as Selena symbolizes a transnational Latina/ queer im agi­ nary that Selena set in m otion through her musical sound and perform ative aesthetics; one, D e b o r a h r . Va r g a s 67 I affirm , that disco and freestyle set in motion. Selena's...

... r m ore co n flicte d and in te lle c tu a lly v ib ra n t" than the firs t.11 S uggested liste n in g : "S econd T im e A ro u n d," sung by Frank S in a tra .12 "S econd T im e A ro u n d " by '70s disco / R & sensation S halim ar also works. K e r r y R e illy 17 5 CARD SIX T his m e m o ir...

... (in the sense o f a p o s itin g o f s im ila ritie s ), a disco u rse w h o s e fu n c tio n is, in part, to assert th e u n iv e rs a l a p p lic a b ility o fW e s te rn va lu e s. W h e re cla ssic O rie n ta lis m had asserted th e essential in a b ility o f the East to jo in "th e w o rld ," th is ne w d...

... I'm a perpetual u n folding o f im ages, connected or disco n n ecte d but alw ays p re te n d in g to be e xternal, situated a m o n g people in the daylight, if I'm awake, or am ong phantom s in the non-light that illum inates dream s, if I'm asleep. I honestly d o n 't know h o w to distinguish one...

... beyond selfexpression to the selfas a projected other. Hence, the text s publi­ cation. As it is, I found myself hearing the words of my Robert Frost, Steven Morrissey, who wrote, B um down the disco, hang the blessed DJ / because the music they constandy play, it says nothing to me about my life...

... is th a t the ve ry strategies and disco u rse th a t co m m u n ica tive laborers use to attem pt to spur them selves into creative/affectual pro d u ctivity often render them increasingly incapable of the very productivity they seek to provoke. The harder one tries to be real, the m ore often one goes...

... on G iorgio Agam ben's suggestion that "m elancholia offers the paradox o f an in te n tion to m ourn that precedes and anticipates the loss o f the object."7 John Claborn understands "the blues," both the m usical fo rm and its translation into lite r­ ary disco u rse by Jam es B aldw in, as a genre...

... e disco u rse a b o u t Jews. . . .T h e fe m a le , like th e Jew , is atavistic in her body and her m ind. In her w o rk on race, g e n d e r and th e Je w ish body, A n n P ellegrini (1997) exp a nd s G ilm an's analysis, m aintaining that as Jew ish m en w ere "assim ilated to the category o f...

... to the a lie n a tio n she feels n o w fro m the disco u rse o f "p a trio tic love," Kam w rite s o f the "c o m m o n re a lity " b e tw e e n all fo rm s o f m a rg in a l e xp erien ce, w h e th e r it ste m s fro m class, e th n icity, o r sexual and gender iden tity: "A fter I experienced an earth...

... em ory is effaced by the drive to accumulate, and care o f the self is lost to an amassing of sexual indifference.8 M y interest, in this essay, has less to do w ith taking sides in this debate than w ith exploring the critical rhetoric through which it has been framed. Clearly the bars, discos...

... is is linked to a disco u rse o f ro m a n tic love in w hich a "h a u n te d lover can do n o th in g , it seem s, but h a u nt the haunts o f the other.T o love in the novel is to becom e g h o s tly o n e se lf" (124). However, because it can be argued that the lover's anxieties represent a possible...

... disco u rse s fo re clo se d any re m a in in g spaces o f e p is te m ic a m b ig u ity c o n c e rn in g Xie's "in n a te " sex, gender, and sexuality. A fte r his firs t surgery, X ie w as de stin e d to becom e a w o m a n . Or, m o re a p tly put, he becam e n o th in g b u t a tra n sse xu a l sta...

... in te l­ lectual disco u rse on frenzy as an enhanced, q u a si-m ystica l affective state in A frica n A m e rican cu ltu ra l fo rm s and practices. In th e fo llo w in g b rie f d e to u r in to th e historical c o n ce ptio n o f fren zy in th e black tra d itio n , tw o rep re se n ta tive e xa m p...

... alvation A rm y's Captain Lobe m akes it, and, in general, th e critica l level o f disco u rse in th e novel be lo n gs so le ly to the n o n w o rk in g classes, in clu d in g the ill-d e fin ed n a rra to r.29 The w o rth y p o o r are passive, and the w o rth le ssn e ss o f the heartless b o u rg e o...

... h ile ea rlier nin e te e n th -ce n tu ry East/W est co m p a riso n s fu n c tio n e d to "d e fin e the d istin ctive n e ss if no t u n iq uen ess o f W estern identity," tu rn -o f-th e -c e n tu ry E uro­ pean disco u rse s on Japanese m o d e rn iz a tio n , as it w as o n e o f the firs t...

... the personal judgem ents and assessments that em otions entail.They too have their w isdom and their knowledge, identified w ith the very core o f identity.T hrough Louisa, G radgrind com es to adm it that he has underestim ated and disco u n te d th e w is d o m o f the heart fo r th a t o f the head...

... ologne tra in s ta tio n th a t w ere a ttrib u te d to refugees, re flecting on the reasons fo r w h ich , and consequences w ith w hich, refugee and w o m e n 's righ ts to m o b ility and G erm an space have been fram ed as disco n tin u o u s. D uring the debates th a t are W ebe r's fo cu s, m o st...

... a tio n in E ast/W est re la tions. H o w could it no t w h e n the processes and products o f m o d e rn iza tio n w ere (lite ra lly and fig u ra tiv e ly ) re shapin g nations? For such tra n s fo rm a tio n to reach its apex, ho w e ver, th e old disco u rse m u s t be discarded . Such d isco u rse...

... a th y a cross d iffe re n c e ra th e r th a n a d isco ve ry o f sam eness. M ore ju s t fu tu re s in vo kin g a disco u rse o f rig h ts m ay best be im agined by a c o m m u n ity of disse n t th a t c o n s tru c ts a ne w no tio n of hu m an s e c u rity and hum an rig h ts . S uch a c o m m u n...

... b je c t-p o s itio n e q uippe d th e m to discuss the in te rse ctio n s o f sex, gender, m ig ra tio n , and pleasure, even th o u g h th e state, D A C A and the s e n tim e n ta l disco u rse o f sa lva tio n th a t drive s e ffo rts at im m ig ra tio n re form p o s itio n them in a s ta te o...