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Performative Subjecthoods: Lesbian Representationsin Split Britches’Belle Reprieve
(Universidad de Sevilla, 2021)
Emerging postmodern theories of gender and sexuality frame the terms in which society has understood these concepts in an evolutionary way throughout history.The last century has witnessed the ...
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Sex and Text: Re(dis)covering Male Sexualities in American Fiction
(2008)
Most discussions about literary representations of (male) sexuality go back to Leslie Fiedler’s Love and Death in the American Novel (1960), who argued that American fiction focuses on men’s struggle to avoid women and ...
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"In the Heart of America", de Naomi Wallace: retrato de un cuerpo femenino como un texto ideológico
(2012)
This paper shows how a female body, considered a representative of its nation’s ideology, is often the main target of political violence and violations. Naomi Wallace’s In the Heart of America uses the sexual frustrations ...
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The limits of lovemaking and community: infertility in "Their eyes were watching God"
(Universidad de Sevilla, 2017)
Janie Crawford, the protagonist in Zora Neale Hurston‟s Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937), never fully grows up or integrates completely into any of the communities of which she is a part in the novel. She therefore ...
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Oscuros estados de deseo: Josephine Baker, identidad y el cuerpo sexual negro
(2012)
La puesta en escena de josephine baker del cuerpo de color femenino en los escenarios de parís en los años 20 y 30 es un ejemplo de la comodificación de la sexualidad femenina. Tiene su precedente en el siglo xix en saartjie ...