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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
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
