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A genealogy of fish women and other imagined identities: “The mechanics of fluids” in Larissa Lai's Salt Fish Girl

open access: yesOrbis Litterarum, EarlyView.
Abstract Fluidity invigorates a utopian home in Chinese Canadian author Larissa Lai's Salt Fish Girl (2002). In the novel, the fishlike lesbian couple cyclically returns to their aquatic habitat between mortal reincarnations: from last‐century colonial South China to near‐future bio‐capitalistic Canada, where they recurrently experience displacement ...
Qianyi Ma
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Aestheticism, desire, and morality: Revisiting Wilde's Dorian Gray through Tanzer's lesbian reimagining

open access: yesOrbis Litterarum, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper examines the interplay of aestheticism and morality in Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray and Molly Tanzer's reimagining, Creatures of Will and Temper. Wilde's original narrative positions aestheticism as both a refuge and a source of ruin, interweaving themes of homoerotic desire, moral ambiguity, and societal condemnation ...
Younes Poorghorban
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‘Who is afraid of fairenesse or wanton ladies appearing in their barenesse?’: laughing at female desire in early modern English reception of the myth of the Trojan War☆

open access: yesRenaissance Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract In early modern England, as part of a broader interrogation of exemplarity, full‐scale works on the Trojan War often subjected the myth's heroes to humorous scrutiny, whereas the heroines remained surprisingly untouched by comedy. Testifying to the war's calamities already in antiquity, in the early modern period, the myth's women acquired a ...
Evgeniia Ganberg
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