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On The Threshold Of Paradise And Present: Memory In Contemporary Cuban‐American Literature, Adrian Suarez Ávila
On The Threshold Of Paradise And Present: Memory In Contemporary Cuban‐American Literature, Adrian Suarez Ávila
Undergraduate Research at FIU (URFIU) Conference
The exile leaving his or her homeland for new and unknown territory travels with much more than just luggage and the clothes on his or her back. He or she carries a weighty collection of memories. Available for the exile in times when the harmony of the past is far removed from the difficult circumstances present during the process of cultural assimilation, these memories present an opportunity for the exile to fashion for him or herself an identity that mimics the realities of life in the home left behind. In this creative endeavor, I seek to examine the powerful potential …
Androgyny Versus Patriarchy: A Historicist‐Psychoanalytic Reading Of Hemingway's The Garden Of Eden And Wilkie Collins's The Woman In White, Maylin Hernandez
Androgyny Versus Patriarchy: A Historicist‐Psychoanalytic Reading Of Hemingway's The Garden Of Eden And Wilkie Collins's The Woman In White, Maylin Hernandez
Undergraduate Research at FIU (URFIU) Conference
This paper will examine how male and female character interactions in Ernest Hemingway’s The Garden of Eden and Wilkie Collins’s The Woman in White expose the internalization, normalization, and perpetuation of current modes of patriarchy in terms of gender roles through their presentations of androgyny. This paper highlights the parallels of gender construction and the interaction within the social relations depicted in these two novels, which have not been compared previously. The premise, based on the psychoanalytic theories of Jacques Lacan and cultural materialism of Raymond Williams, is that fiction reflects historical and contemporary social relations. Lacanian and feminist interpretations …