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Take A Third Option: Multigender In Middlesex, Cohen M. Edenfield
Take A Third Option: Multigender In Middlesex, Cohen M. Edenfield
The Corinthian
Jeffery Eugenides’ Middlesex presents a protagonist, Calliope, coming to terms with hir gender identity. For some critics, the final stage of this development is Calliope’s return to hir family and decision to live as a man. By this understanding, they mistakenly conflate the end of that narrative with the narrative of the framing device, set in the present. They ignore the fact that Cal’s time as a firmly-defined man is even worse than hir time as a woman, a sad reality that has not changed in the present.
Reverential Feminism: (Re) Considering The Status Of Women In The African Novel, Joseph M. Brogdon
Reverential Feminism: (Re) Considering The Status Of Women In The African Novel, Joseph M. Brogdon
The Corinthian
In assessing the African novel from a twenty-first century Western perspective, the tendency inevitably arises to interpret the culture as inherently bearing an excessive force of patriarchal subjugation against which all African women must struggle. Perhaps such a reading is not entirely unwarranted, but if this is the chosen lens for interpretation, it then becomes necessary distinguish the author’s beliefs from those represented in the cultural attitudes of their text. In failing to make this ideological distinction between the world of the novel and the world of the novelist, it becomes easy to err in the way of too readily …