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
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Cultural contradictions in Middlesex
Sunday, April 29th, 2012
As I was reading Jeffrey Eugenides’ Middlesex, I thought how it should have won an award for its poetic use of language, and supreme storytelling. Lo and behold I look at the cover and discover that the book had won the Pulitzer Prize. In Middlesex, Foucault’s subjectivity of bodies takes on a new element. What […]
Cultural contradictions in Middlesex
Tags: Foucault, subjectivity of bodies, taboos
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