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... scholarship provides the grounds to continue to scrutinize which kinds of exchange and subjectivity can even be represented by categories of labor. Leading to the question of what stakes are involved in asserting that gestational surrogates and others whose productivity occurs primarily through biological...

... . 1971 . “ Reflections on the Black Woman’s Role in the Community of Slaves .” Black Scholar 12 , no. 6 : 2 – 15 . Davis Angela . 1998 . “ Surrogates and Outcast Mothers: Racism and Reproductive Politics in the 1990s .” In The Angela Y. Davis Reader , edited by James Joy , 210...

... the surrogate victim, stripping away its constitutive guilt (Girard), or because the technical control over life that sacrifice makes possible has undergone such an autonomization as to have reached the point of substituting sacrificial forms for the contractual forms of modernity (Hénaff). In both accounts...

... 2003 novel The Namesake, in which his “American” given name becomes a surrogate for a patronymic and a genealogy that cannot enact its meaning in a land where subcontinental names are not self-­explanatory and have to be con- stantly spelled out, accounted for, and footnoted.9 In Unaccustomed...

... of vague but intended possibility. If one views Lady Dedlock as a surrogate for Esther, as a psy­ chological double, then he might find valid, non-supematural psy­ chological reasons for Lady Dedlock s death as an action paving the way for Esther s salvation. Lady Dedlock s acts mirror Esther s...

... of which he writes is simply a synthesizing term for all tropes which are grounded in a rational perception extended and embellished by the human imag­ ination: an exterior made/Interior. In repudiating symbolism for its esotericism and intangible multivalence, Honig offers a surrogate term...

... on New Deal programs and agencies. He concludes that the attempt to impose a nationwide interest upon American society during peacetime was unsuccessful and The country had yet to find a way to organize collective action save in war or its surrogate. Kirkendall in The Great Depression: Another Water­...

... was unsuccessful and The country had yet to find a way to organize collective action save in war or its surrogate. Kirkendall in The Great Depression: Another Water­ shed in American History? concludes that despite the obvious changes the New Deal was more evolutionary than revolutionary and did not constitute...

...- zenship for patriotic reasons; others became the so-called Harbin radishes (red outside, white inside) and applied for Soviet citizenship to keep their jobs. The Soviet Union, however, did not issue genuine passports to Harbin Russians but special surrogates or, in many cases, only a receipt for an ap...

... available to an idealization of the Subject. This idealiza­ tion, the one-who-executes these activities, the Agent, is envisaged as a surrogate or proxy of the Subject, imagined into being precisely in order to act on the purely formal, mechanically specifiable corre­ lates signifiers of what...

..., approval, love. 17 Much of his psychological difficulty, he believed, was related to a constant need for approval from an absentee father whose place was filled by various surrogate fathers, the football coaches. This paternalism allows coaches to get the best out of their boys. The more attention...

... . Wacquant Loïc 2000 . “ The New ‘Peculiar Institution’: On the Prison as Surrogate Ghetto .” Theoretical Criminology 4 , no. 3 : 377 – 89 . Wagner Peter Rabuy Bernadette . 2017 . Following the Money of Mass Incarceration . Prison Policy Initiative . https...

... mind; the other explores poetic continuities. One result of this difference is that there emerges from Langbaum s book an almost Arnoldian sense that litera­ ture may start to function as a surrogate religion. In exploring the mysteries of identity, post-Enlightenment literature is searching for its...

... an almost Arnoldian sense that litera­ ture may start to function as a surrogate religion. In exploring the mysteries of identity, post-Enlightenment literature is searching for its bible, for some wholly secular meditation on what Langbaum calls the working religion of modern self-conscious people. (p...

.... She, too, lost a doting mother at the age of eleven and grew up estranged from her austere, reproving father. Seeking affection and attention from a succession of father-surrogates in a series of affairs with mar­ ried men, she all too neatly became a stand-in for Anna Aiken on trial, reviv­ ing...

... in dramatic monologues, where the poem is designed to reveal the per­ sonality of the speaker and where the reader and his surrogate the negotiating agent in My Last Duchess or the officer of the guard in Fra Lippo Lippi are standing in more or less the same place in re­ lation to the speaker. It works...

... round the room. On the table under the window lay a mas­ sive volume bound in limp black leather-surrogate, and stamped with large golden T s. He picked it up and opened it. My Life and Work by Our Ford. The book had been published at Detroit by the Society for the Propagation of Fordian Knowledge. Idly...

... to do (p. 177). The particular nonsense of this story is that the narrator, in an attempt to rescue a routinized self, creates a surrogate, a fictional character that becomes another self for him. A key to his motive is something he quotes from La Fontaine: I must have the new, though there be none...

... of the Harriet Tubman Department of Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies at the University of Maryland, College Park. She is the author of Humanitarian Violence: The U.S. Deployment of Diversity (2013), coauthor of Surrogate Humanity: Race, Robots, and the Politics of Technological Futures (2019...

... and precludes union with the Other, or the mirror self. While Frankenstein has a number of objets petit a, surrogates for his desired Other, they fail to fill his void. Eliza­ beth, metonymically associated with Victor s mother, is one such desirable other.42 However, Frankenstein s repeated deferral...