Nie hatte sich Jake auch nur in seinen kuhnsten Traumen vorstellen konnen, mal mit zwei Mannern zusammen zu sein. Vieles ist noch immer neu, aber sowohl er als auch Cris und Chet sind fest entschlossen, fur alle Probleme gemeinsam eine Losung zu finden. Und das funktioniert eine Weile auch hervorragend… bis Cris sich plotzlich unvermittelt von Jake und Chet zuruckzieht. Ihre Liebe wird auf eine harte Probe gestellt, wahrend Cris mit seiner Verga ...
To be fat hasn’t always occasioned the level of hysteria that this condition receives today and indeed was once considered an admirable trait. Fat Shame: Stigma and the Fat Body in American Culture explores this arc, from veneration to shame, examining the historic roots of our contemporary anxiety about fatness. Tracing the cultural denigration of fatness to the mid 19th century, Amy Farrell argues that the stigma associated with a fat body p ...
Explores the how, why, and what of contemporary Chicanx culture, including punk rock, literary fiction, photography, mass graves, and digital and experimental installation art Racial Immanence attempts to unravel a Gordian knot at the center of the study of race and discourse: it seeks to loosen the constraints that the politics of racial representation put on interpretive methods and on our understanding of race itself. Marissa K. Lopez argu ...
Elaine Baruch is not only among the most quiet-voiced and fair-minded of feminist writers. She is also among the most far-ranging in her scholarship, equally at ease with the writers of the Renaissance and Freud, the medieval troubadours, and our contemporary polemicists. . . instructive, absorbing, and persuasive.–Diana Trilling A lively mind is at work here and a keen and witty writer too.–Irving HoweThis is a fine collection of essays. . . ma ...
George Eliot has been widely praised both for the richness of her prose and the universality of her themes. In this compelling study, Peggy Fitzhugh Johnstone goes beyond these traditional foci to examine the role of aggression in Eliot's fiction and to find its source in the author's unconscious sense of loss stemming from traumatic family separations and deaths during her childhood and adolescence. Johnstone demonstrates that Eliot&a ...
In her compendious study, [of the folktale of the runaway wife] Leavy argues that the contradictory claims of nature and culture are embodied in the legendary figure of the swan maiden, a woman torn between the human and bestial worlds. – The New York Times Book Review This is a study of the meaning of gender as framed by the swan maiden tale, a story found in the folklore of virtually every culture. The swan maiden is a supernatural woman ...
One of literature's greatest gifts is its portrayal of realistically drawn characters–human beings in whom we can recognize motivations and emotions. In Imagined Human Beings , Bernard J. Paris explores the inner conflicts of some of literature's most famous characters, using Karen Horney's psychoanalytic theories to understand the behavior of these characters as we would the behavior of real people. When realistically drawn char ...
Gregorio Malverde ha abandonado a sus hijas, se ha metido en un remoto pueblo en la costa caribena, y ha adoptado a una nina negra. Preocupadas por los restos de la riqueza familiar, las hijas de Malverde organizan un viaje para tomar posesion de lo que creen que les pertenece. Deciden llevarse consigo a su prima Ada y a Gonzalo, un adolescente que en el descubrimiento de su sexualidad quiere comerse el mundo.Mar Canibal es la historia de ese vi ...
A la espera de su ejecucion en una celda de la fortaleza de El Morro en La Habana, Cuba, un mercenario naval hispanocostarricense narra a sus verdugos las horribles atrocidades de las cuales fue autor y testigo durante la sangrienta revuelta indigena en las montanas del sur de Costa Rica a inicios del siglo XVIII.Por medio de sus palabras, asistimos al cruel y descarnado testimonio de un lobrego encantador de serpientes que hechiza maligno a su ...
