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The Vida de Santa María Egipcíaca and Julia Kristeva's theory of abjection

Medievalia, 2016
The Vida de Santa María Egipcíaca and Julia Kristeva's theory of ...
Connie L. Scarborough
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“Not that her being black had anything to do with it, for me”: Blackness in Emma Donoghue’s “The Welcome” [PDF]

Estudios Irlandeses, 2023
The paper aims to analyze the construction of the character JJ in Emma Donoghue’s short story “The Welcome” (2006). The story portrays Luce’s sexual awakening for JJ, the new resident of the women-only cooperative living residence, The Welcome.
Victor Augusto da Cruz Pacheco
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Them, Danny Treacy (Manchester, 1975-): Stitching Selflessness

Études Britanniques Contemporaines, 2017
Danny Treacy’s photographic series, Them (2002-), is made up of large-size self-portraits of the artist camouflaged in second-hand costumes stitched out of fragments of found clothes.
Valérie Morisson
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Dissenting body and its creative recontextualisation in Lithuanian visual arts

Creativity Studies, 2019
The body is an important starting point concept throughout deconstruction, reconstruction and recontextualization of the body’s concept. This change of focus in research that stems from the results to the process of contextualization means that the ...
Basia Nikiforova, Kęstutis Šapoka
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BRIDGING GAPS THROUGH FEMINIST PEDAGOGY: TEACHING ABJECTION IN A POSTCOLONIAL LITERATURE COURSE [PDF]

Studies in Linguistics, Culture, and FLT, 2017
This paper engages with teaching gender, caste, and sexuality in the context of Spanish Higher Education. I will examine my experience of teaching Githa Hariharan’s “The Remains of the Feast,” Arundhati Roy’s The God of Small Things and Shobha Dé’s ...
Antonia Navarro-Tejero
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Lumpérica de Diamela Eltit, o el arte de la ambivalencia como potencial ético y estético en el contexto de la biopolítica neoliberal

Confluenze, 2011
In this essay, I suggest an interpretation of Lumpérica (1983) by the Chilean novelist Diamela Eltit, as an aesthetic response to the biopolitical strategies of the neoliberal regime during the Pinochet's dictatorship, as well as in more recent years ...
Martina Bortignon
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They «smelt of rot»: Abjection and Infection in Seamus Heaney’s Early Work [PDF]

Estudios Irlandeses, 2023
This essay considers Seamus Heaney’s early pastoral poetry through the lens of Julia Kristeva’s notion of the abject, the fearful and feminine Other.
Stephanie Alexander
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The Arena of Thanatos: Psuché, Soma, and Sigalit Landau's body representation—a comparative study

Journal of Aesthetics & Culture, 2015
Sigalit Landau is an international sculpture, video, installation, and performance artist, born in Jerusalem, and raised also in the USA and the UK.
Nava Sevilla Sadeh
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Navigating the Antiheroine’s Internalised Misogyny: Transformative Female Friendship in Cat’s Eye and The Robber Bride

IAFOR Journal of Literature & Librarianship, 2022
This paper focuses on Margaret Atwood’s novels, Cat’s Eye and The Robber Bride, as well as her short story “I Dream of Zenia with the Bright Red Teeth” in order to examine her complex construction of the elusive antiheroine, a figure who ultimately ...
Eleanore Gardner
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Body Fluids and Fluid Bodies: Trans-Corporeal Connections in Contemporary German Narratives of Illness

Humanities, 2019
Medicine uses body fluids for the construction of medical knowledge in the laboratory and at the same time considers them as potentially infectious or dirty.
Katja Herges
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