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Pop Goes The Rapper: A Close Reading Of Eminem’S Genderphobia, Vincent L. Stephens Dec 2004

Pop Goes The Rapper: A Close Reading Of Eminem’S Genderphobia, Vincent L. Stephens

Vincent L Stephens

This article argues that controversial hip-hopper Eminem is more properly termed a genderphobe than a homophobe. Eminem consistently uses homophobic language to critique gender behaviour, not sexual orientation. Focusing on genderphobic lyrics more accurately reveals hip-hop culture's emphasis on gender behaviour rather than the emphasis on sexual object-choice that homophobia implies. The focus on genderphobia also highlights a discriminatory practice aimed toward external behaviour that is related to homophobia but operates differently in certain cultural realms. I ground my discussion by focusing on the centrality of authenticity in hip-hop and gender propriety's centrality in comprising hip-hop notions of authenticity. Additionally, …

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Alan Moore And The Graphic Novel: Confronting The Fourth Dimension, Mark Bernard, James Carter Dec 2003

Alan Moore And The Graphic Novel: Confronting The Fourth Dimension, Mark Bernard, James Carter

James B Carter

Comics, especially the works of Alan Moore, are examined as meeting the goals of modernist artists and writers due to their combination of image and text, succeedeing where neither form of expression could independently of one another.

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Resisting Subjects: The Politics Of Spectacular Style In Women's Subcultural Production”, Doreen Piano Dec 2002

Resisting Subjects: The Politics Of Spectacular Style In Women's Subcultural Production”, Doreen Piano

Doreen M Piano

No abstract provided.

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The Dancing Sasquatch And Other Mysteries, Steve Nadis Dec 2002

The Dancing Sasquatch And Other Mysteries, Steve Nadis

3 Digital Curation

Nadis relates a close encounter with the Bigfoot during a recent vacation at Greensboro VT. He and his wife, Blinkie, went on a midnight cross-country ski outing and saw a dark, gyrating figure in the middle of the Caspian Lake, a sight he found a bit unnerving. The Bigfoot, or Sasquatch, was a twelve feet tall mythic creature well-known in the Pacific Northwest.

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The Wandering Bachelor: Irving, Masculinity And Authorship, Bryce Traister Dec 2001

The Wandering Bachelor: Irving, Masculinity And Authorship, Bryce Traister

Bryce Traister

No abstract provided.

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Bonds And Biopower In The 1920 French Peace Bond Posters, Maureen Shanahan Dec 2000

Bonds And Biopower In The 1920 French Peace Bond Posters, Maureen Shanahan

Maureen G. Shanahan

No abstract provided.

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Comic Strips And Books, James M. Donovan Jan 2000

Comic Strips And Books, James M. Donovan

James M. Donovan

Reviews the treatment and appearance of gay men in comic serials and books.

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Intro. To Post-Traumatic Culture, Kirby Farrell Dec 1997

Intro. To Post-Traumatic Culture, Kirby Farrell

kirby farrell

This is the Introduction to my POST-TRAUMATIC CULTURE: INJURY AND INTERPRETATION IN THE 90s. It develops the premise that trauma is psychophysiogical: an injury that is also an interpretation of an injury. Its analyses show the idea of trauma functioning as a tool that all sorts of people use for a range of purposes.

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Introduction To A Register Of Artists, Engravers, Booksellers, Bookbinders, Printers & Publishers In New York City, 1821-1842, Sidney F. Huttner, Elizabeth S. Huttner Dec 1992

Introduction To A Register Of Artists, Engravers, Booksellers, Bookbinders, Printers & Publishers In New York City, 1821-1842, Sidney F. Huttner, Elizabeth S. Huttner

Sidney F. Huttner

The Register collects some 5,000 names and 50,000 addresses for craftspeople working in trades related to printing and publishing in New York City during the period 1821-1842. The Introduction, the only element offered here, discusses in detail the methodology used to compile the Register and details the joys and difficulties of working with early city directories as primary sources.

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Generational Theory And Collective Autobiography, John D. Hazlett Dec 1991

Generational Theory And Collective Autobiography, John D. Hazlett

John D Hazlett

Hazlett's essay examines the emergence of generational theory at the beginning of the 20th Century, considers some of the reasons for its popularity, and then shows how generationalism influenced the autobiographical writing of two self-proclaimed generational groups: the writers who came of age in the 1920s, and the group of activists and writers who came of age in the 1960s.

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