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Apocalyptic Empathy: A Parable Of Postmodern Sentimentality, Rebecca A. Wanzo
Apocalyptic Empathy: A Parable Of Postmodern Sentimentality, Rebecca A. Wanzo
Women, Gender & Sexuality Studies Research
This essay analyzes the relationship between feelings and politics in Octavia E. Butler's novels "Parable of the Sower" and "Parable of the Talents." Comparison of the sentimentalism approach used by the author and Harriet Beecher Stowe in the novel "Uncle Tom's Cabin"; Characteristics of Butler's novels which are categorize as postmodernism; Significance of feeling of the novels' heroines to political activism.
To Die Laughing And To Laugh At Dying: Revisiting The Awakening, Anca Parvulescu
To Die Laughing And To Laugh At Dying: Revisiting The Awakening, Anca Parvulescu
Women, Gender & Sexuality Studies Research
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Masochism: A Queer Subjectivity, Amber Jamilla Musser
Masochism: A Queer Subjectivity, Amber Jamilla Musser
Women, Gender & Sexuality Studies Research
Judith Butler's Gender Trouble elaborates what may be called a queer subjectivity. Characterized by non-essential, performative identity, her theory has been criticized because, according to its critics, it does not give the subject political agency. Liberal theorists, such as Seyla Benhabib, have been particularly concerned with the political effects of this form of subjectivity on already marginalized social groups while other theorists, such as Susan Stryker and Ed Cohen, have articulated concern that the theory does not sufficiently account for embodiment, affect, and identity. This essay brings Deleuze's theory of masochism in dialogue with Butler's theories of subjectivity in an …