... Robyn . American Anatomies: Theorizing Race and Gender . Durham : Duke UP , 1995 . Zackodnik Teresa . `` Fixing the Color Line: The Mulatto, Southern Courts, and Racial Identity .'' American Quarterly 53 ( 2001 ): 420 - 451 . AN 'IMPERCEPTIBLE INFUSION' OF BLOOD: IOLA LEROY...

... . Chicago , University of Chicago Press , 1985 . Print . Detweiler Jane . “A Piano in the Margin: Gertrude Stein ‘Detected’ in Blood on the Dining Room Floor.” Kentucky Philological Review 7 ( 1992 ): 12 - 16 . Print . Doane Janice . Silence and Narrative: The Early Novels...

... under the name of secularism, especially the degree of enchantment experienced by subjects in the century leading up to the Reformation. The complex series of responses to miraculous Eucharists in the Wilsnack blood cult and in the Croxton Play of the Sacrament demonstrate that skepticism...

... and think about living organs, or microbes, or pathophysiological processes that we cannot simply watch. Focusing on a range of representations of events beneath surfaces, from Jaws to X-rays to a short story about a white blood cell, this article examines the ways in which metaphor and narrative function...

... of Death (1900), Strindberg attributes vampiric qualities of authorship to characters that function as narrators. Strindberg's vampires sustain themselves with language rather than blood, and the forms they use to drain their victims are inextricable from the epic narration Strindberg explicitly adapts...

... be everything we are, while at the same time, they are fearful reminders of the infinite things we are not (6). Vampires offer a fantasy of immortality, possessing a more- than- human nature that not only endures but does so decadently. Adam and Eve, however, are endangered by contaminated blood from humans...

... : Cambridge, MA : The MIT Press , 1996 . Gordon Joan Hollinger Veronica . `` Introduction: The Shape of Vampires .'' Blood Read: The Vampire as Metaphor in Contemporary Culture . Eds. Gordon Joan Hollinger Veronica . Philadelphia : University of Philadelphia Press , 1997...

... edition . ———. (1985) 1992 . Blood Meridian; or, The Evening Redness in the West . New York : Vintage . Citations refer to the 1992 edition . ———. (1992) 1993 . All the Pretty Horses . New York : Vintage . Citations refer to the 1993 edition . ———. 1994 . The Crossing . New York...

... is also the scene of a lavishly premodern fictional identity politics, with destinies definitively shaped by blood lineage, violence motivated by codes of honor, Chosen Ones springing up like weeds. The real world reflected in the gilt-framed mirror of epic fantasy, I will argue, is one in which access...

... in California history: the San Francisco waterfront, mari- time and general strike of 1934. To thus contextualize the novel is to realize that, although Steinbeck fashioned himself as a "great writer" through representations of fictional workers, real flesh and blood ;workers sought to represent themselves...

... emphasis). Discovery and recovery, in one sense or another, drive the numerous plots of The Light People, providing its political edge and its ethno-political sat- ire. The reader is introduced to the "Prisoner of Haiku", Elijah Cold Crow for instance, by Bombarto Rose, a mixed-blood essayist...

... the grip of a viewer trying to grab onto history through their images. As the opening shot of Ofelia’s white, blood-stained face reveals, either her idealized innocence was putative, or it provided no immunity from trauma. Either way, this particular child will not carry the past into the future...

.... The Children Act focuses on the case of Adam Henry, a seventeen- year- old suffering from leukemia who refuses to accept a blood transfusion because it vio- lates the edicts of the Jehovah’s Witnesses. The hospital requests an emergency court order to allow them to transfuse Adam against his...

... are “not . . . locked safely away from men” (ibid., 276), who have finally dealt with a world where they were chased, hunted, violated, and abused, it is no surprise that the blood- bath at the Convent is not as one-­sided as the men of Ruby expect. Bursting forth, attacking, and not hiding: in an instant...

... but is mainly comprised of essays, does not neglect to include further illumination of his prison experience(s). Baca also wrote the screenplay for the 1993 movie Blood In Blood Out: Bound by Honor, which offers a harsh depiction of the cultures of East Los Angeles and San Quentin prison during...

...—blood and soil—and the rise of völkisch thought. Soon after gaining power in 1933, Adolf Hitler appointed Walther Darré as Reich Minister for Nutrition and Agriculture. Darré had published Das Bauerntum als Lebensquell der Nordischen Rasse (The Peasantry as the Life Source...

.... Maybe this is a case that a little knowl- edge is dangerous. (Robert) The doctor suggests having blood work done. (Kevin) The doctor didn't seem to quantify the risk of what (to be honest) we would have to call brain damage. (Hugh) Although without doubt...

... blood flowered in the heart of the southern sun. Brass tambourines, octave of pain clear as blood on a silent mirror. Someone close to us dragged away in dawnlight here in these iron years. (98) The southern landscape is stained by the blood...

... . Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press , 1994 . Heberle Renee . “Deconstructive Strategies and the Movement Against Sexual Violence.” Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy 11 . 4 ( Fall 1996 ): 63 - 76 . Howard Clark . Love's Blood . New York : St. Martin's...

... of the Lark and The Professor’s House Eric Aronoff 61 The Gothic Mystery and Blood on the Dining Room Floor: How Gertrude Stein Cured Her Writing Block Janice L. Doane and Devon L. Hodges 91 “‘Plasticity’s Central...