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Differend, Sexual Difference, And The Sublime, Andrew Slade
Differend, Sexual Difference, And The Sublime, Andrew Slade
Andrew R. Slade
The aim of this chapter is to articulate how two key feminist writers, Marguerite Duras and Luce lrigaray, engage and rewrite Lyotard's interest in the sublime as a feminist aesthetic category. Jean-François Lyotard was at the vanguard of a retrieval of the category of the sublime in contemporary aesthetic theory. A trenchantly polymorphous philosopher, he wrote of the sublime in a range of styles that rivals the old masters of aesthetics, who not only mastered the thought, but were themselves sublime in their works. Whereas the tradition of aesthetics almost unequivocally aligns the sublime with the masculine and the feminine …
Invisible Monsters And Palahniuk's Perverse Sublime, Andrew Slade
Invisible Monsters And Palahniuk's Perverse Sublime, Andrew Slade
Andrew R. Slade
Invisible Monsters is a novel about the search for identities — sexual, family, gender, social — that is never at ease with the search. The characters in the novel wish to put an end to the need to search for an identity and to draw to a close the need and urge to represent themselves to others. These are characters who wish to be what and who they are without apology or argument but are ill-equipped to do so. They cannot find the means by and through which to put the seeking to an end. It may be tempting to …
Mixing Mourning And Desire: Alfonso Cuarón's 'Y Tu Mamá También', Andrew Slade
Mixing Mourning And Desire: Alfonso Cuarón's 'Y Tu Mamá También', Andrew Slade
Andrew R. Slade
Alfonso Cuarón's Y Tu Mamá También was one of a series of hit movies from Mexico in the early years of the millennium. From the beginning, the movie generated shock and scandal for its representations of graphic sex, but more than that for its representation of queer desire between the emerging young stars Diego Luna and Gael Garcia Bernal. As the two established their careers, they continued to answer questions about Julio and Tenoch, the two adolescent, urban cowboys they played in Y Tu Mamá También. The road movie as coming-of-age story on its own would not produce any disconcerting …
Hiroshima, 'Mon Amour,' Trauma, And The Sublime, Andrew Slade
Hiroshima, 'Mon Amour,' Trauma, And The Sublime, Andrew Slade
Andrew R. Slade
Trauma ruptures the world of our daily experiences. It is an intrusion that threatens the body and psyche and affects us in symptomatic ways. That something happened is certain; what that is, however, resists comprehension and understanding. The impetus of much contemporary trauma research in the humanities derives from the coincidence of survivors' insistence on the truth of their experiences and life in a global culture that multiplies traumatic circumstances. These circumstances pose a radical threat to the fecundity of human life, to be sure, and also to the very possibility of brute survival. My aim in this essay is …