Professor Lee Quinby – Spring 2012

Posts Tagged: taboos


Posts Tagged ‘taboos’

Deconstructing “The Norm”

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 […]

Cultural contradictions in Middlesex

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 […]