Posts Tagged ‘Identity’
Gender-Blenders: Detrimental to the Fantasies of Heterosexuals
Monday, May 7th, 2012
The Christina Jorgensen case is a tragic example of how the media could either make or break you. It also reiterates the notion that when it comes to touchy subjects in America, there’s no such thing as an acceptable gray area (Abortion, for or against; Politics, red or blue and sometimes green). As for the […]
Gender-Blenders: Detrimental to the Fantasies of Heterosexuals
Tags: Ambiguity, Discourse, hermaphrodite, Identity, Media, Sexuality
Posted in May 8, Peter Panousopoulos | Comments Off on Gender-Blenders: Detrimental to the Fantasies of Heterosexuals
Directions to the Inside
Sunday, May 6th, 2012
I think maybe all of the gender theory I have been reading for another class has gotten to me because I found myself increasingly frustrated with Cal’s characterization of gender and sex. I also, however, don’t have a solution for the ways in which society in general is stuck in the binary of male or […]
Directions to the Inside
Tags: Foucault, Identity, Middlesex, Power-Relations
Posted in May 8, Whitney Porter | No Comments »
Deconstructing “The Norm”
Monday, April 30th, 2012
So sorry for the late post!! Finals time is starting to take over! I am absolutely loving Middlesex. I think it’s amazing that Eugenides is able to take such a powerful taboo right from the very beginning and make us (well at least me) root for the characters involved. Lefty and Desdemona’s relationship has all […]
Deconstructing “The Norm”
Tags: Foucault, Identity, incest, Middlesex, Social Constructionist, taboos
Posted in May 1, Whitney Porter | No Comments »
Approaching ‘Angels’ Curious, but Wary
Sunday, April 22nd, 2012
The first time I heard about Angels in America was when my ninth grade English class read The Laramie Project. At the time, the play was an unapproachable feat of the struggle to be gay in America, and the AIDS epidemic. I didn’t want to touch it with a ten-foot pole because I was afraid […]
Approaching ‘Angels’ Curious, but Wary
Tags: AIDS, Angels in America, death, Foucault, Homosexuality, Identity, power-knowledge, Power-Relations
Posted in April 24, Tal Shtulsaft | No Comments »
Agency and the Limitations of Claiming an Identity
Sunday, April 22nd, 2012
I saw Angels in America performed last year and reading the plays has been an entirely new experience. Reading the plays as literary pieces has opened up opportunities to carefully examine the many meanings within lines or within single words. This course has influenced my perceptions about a number of things, but Foucault’s discussions of […]
Agency and the Limitations of Claiming an Identity
Tags: Agency, Angels in America, Confession, Foucault, Identity, Kushner, Power-Relations
Posted in April 24, Whitney Porter | No Comments »
Assortment
Sunday, April 22nd, 2012
The subtitle, “A Gay Fantasia on National Themes,” of “Angels in America” is a pretty good statement for the plays’ topics. Breaking it down, it can be read as a fantasy or something fanciful and unreal with a gay/ homosexual overture about American issues relevant in that time period (1985-1986). The fantastic elements of angels, […]
Assortment
Tags: Angels in America, Complexity, Homosexuality, Identity, Kushner, Religion
Posted in April 24, Vita Xie | No Comments »
Construction, Power and Loss in Sula
Sunday, April 15th, 2012
I really enjoyed Tony Morrison’s Sula. It’s a unique novel in that Morrison lets the reader to a lot of work and filling in the blanks for herself. I found that both challenging and interesting especially when I was trying to recall how certain characters related to one another. Sula reminded me of Lolita in […]
Construction, Power and Loss in Sula
Tags: awareness, constructionism, Identity, loss, Morrison, Power-Relations, Sula
Posted in April 17, Whitney Porter | 1 Comment »
Suspended between Lolita and Lucidity
Monday, April 2nd, 2012
Sorry for the late post! I wasn’t quite to the end of part two last night and wanted to finish it before writing. First of all, wow! I have so much respect for Nabokov as an author! He has total mastery over language, mood, and his audience. I know there is no “real” author present, […]
Suspended between Lolita and Lucidity
Tags: Humbert Humbert, Identity, Illusion, Lolita, Memory, Nabokov
Posted in April 3, Whitney Porter | No Comments »
Sexuality and Modernity
Sunday, March 25th, 2012
Since I go to Brooklyn College and intend (ha!) to graduate from Brooklyn College, I have to complete what is known as the “Core Curriculum,” a set of courses intended to give every undergrad a liberal arts and sciences education in a nutshell. One of these courses I am currently taking is “ The Shaping […]
Sexuality and Modernity
Tags: Heterosexuality, Homosexuality, Identity, Sexuality, The History of Sexuality
Posted in March 27, Vita Xie | 1 Comment »
South Park is Gay
Wednesday, March 14th, 2012
Hey everyone, I mentioned this episode of South Park in class yesterday. It’s pretty funny to think about the way clothing/media create spheres of identity especially when you think about it in terms of a group of cartoon fourth graders. Check it out if you have some free time: http://www.southparkstudios.com/full-episodes/s07e08-south-park-is-gay
South Park is Gay
Tags: Fashion, Homosexuality, Identity, Media
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