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The blue notebook : a novel
Batuk, an Indian girl, is taken to Mumbai from the countryside and sold into prostitution by her father; the blue notebook is her diary, in which she recalls her early childhood, records her life on the Common Street, and makes up beautiful and fantastic tales about a silver-eyed leopard and a poor boy who fells a giant with a single gold coin.--From publisher description.
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Ghiñn: A Reading of Disgust as a Literary Device in Subimal Mishra’s Short Fiction
[...]the paper will use the discussed concepts as a method of studying disgust in some literary works. If history teaches us anything about conservatism, then it is this: aestheticisation of politics is the pathway to marking, vilifying, criminalising, and discriminating against the Other. [...]we see that the rise of the study of disgust and the spread of colonisation shared a correlative timeline. [...]interest in disgust as a separate category of emotion starts much later and coincides with the timeline of colonialism. Phillip Sidney comments in The Defence of Poesy: For now they cast sugar and spice upon every dish that is served to the table; like those Indians, not content to wear ear-rings at the fit and natural place of the ears, but they will thrust jewels through their nose and lips, because they will be sure to (Sidney 246-247).
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Along the Indigo
Marsden yearns to take her sister and escape Glory, a town famous for seedy businesses and suicides, but her friendship with Jude yields secrets that may chain them to the Indigo River forever.
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The Tales of Two Peninsulas: Remaking National Myth and Remapping the US Military Base Network in Fox Girl (2002) and Soucouyant (2007)
This essay juxtaposes the US military bases located at the opposite ends of the Pacific, by reading together two fictional accounts of military prostitution—one set in Busan, a port city south of the Korean Peninsula and the other in Chaguaramas of Trinidad. Both Nora Okja Keller's Fox Girl (2002) and David Chariandy's Soucouyant (2007) turn to traditional children's folktales in recounting the history of military prostitution that is carefully carved out from each peninsula's postwar nation-building discourse. By recentering the transgressive movements of the folk figures who are prominent in the East Asian and Afro-Caribbean imaginary, the novels reimagine the geographic landscapes of each peninsula and spotlight the alternative routes of resistance in the oceanic and atmospheric. Their remaking of the vernacular tales of the soucouyant and nine-tailed fox, gumiho, challenges the discursive legacies of the US \"military colony\" that silence the histories of military prostitution and interrogates the developmentalist narratives underpinning the national myths.
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\For the dead cannot shrive me now\: Gender Violence, Precariousness and the Neo-Victorian Gothic in Katy Darby's The Whores' Asylum (2012)
Katy Darby’s neo-Victorian novel The Whores’ Asylum (2012) is set in Oxford in the 1880s. The Gothic plays an important role in the process of re-writing the Victorian period as a mirror of our contemporary societies where depravity and lack of humanity co-exist with modernity and civilisation. The protagonists—Stephen, Edward and Diana—are involved in the process of showing sympathy for the lives and deaths of the destitute and the dispossessed. Under the stance of Judith Butler’s theories of mourning and violence, my analysis has a twofold aim: to discuss issues of the Victorian past such as venereal disease, prostitution and gender violence in the text, and to question to what extent the novel can be an attempt to hear the voices of the victims of sexual exploitation, giving them restoration and agency. However, my conclusion is that the text does not grant the victims of sexual exploitation real voice or agency.
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Violet Grenade
When Madam Karina discovers Domino in an alleyway, she offers her a position inside her home for entertainers in secluded West Texas. Left with few alternatives and an agenda of her own, Domino accepts. It isn't long before she is fighting her way up the ranks to gain the madam's approval. But after suffering weeks of bullying and unearthing the madam's secrets, Domino decides to leave. It'll be harder than she thinks, though, because the madam doesn't like to lose inventory. But then, Madam Karina doesn't know about the person living inside Domino's mind.
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Status in Classical Athens
Ancient Greek literature, Athenian civic ideology, and modern classical scholarship have all worked together to reinforce the idea that there were three neatly defined status groups in classical Athens--citizens, slaves, and resident foreigners. But this book--the first comprehensive account of status in ancient democratic Athens--clearly lays out the evidence for a much broader and more complex spectrum of statuses, one that has important implications for understanding Greek social and cultural history. By revealing a social and legal reality otherwise masked by Athenian ideology, Deborah Kamen illuminates the complexity of Athenian social structure, uncovers tensions between democratic ideology and practice, and contributes to larger questions about the relationship between citizenship and democracy.
Each chapter is devoted to one of ten distinct status groups in classical Athens (451/0-323 BCE): chattel slaves, privileged chattel slaves, conditionally freed slaves, resident foreigners (metics), privileged metics, bastards, disenfranchised citizens, naturalized citizens, female citizens, and male citizens. Examining a wide range of literary, epigraphic, and legal evidence, as well as factors not generally considered together, such as property ownership, corporal inviolability, and religious rights, the book demonstrates the important legal and social distinctions that were drawn between various groups of individuals in Athens. At the same time, it reveals that the boundaries between these groups were less fixed and more permeable than Athenians themselves acknowledged. The book concludes by trying to explain why ancient Greek literature maintains the fiction of three status groups despite a far more complex reality.
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Masculinity and Prostitution in Late Medieval German Literature
While there exists a large (and growing) body of literature on medieval prostitution and female identity, where masculinity is concerned, scholarly discussion has mostly been restricted to the figure of the brothel client and the theme of male bonding. As I shall argue here, however, prostitution could play an important role in facilitating (and sometimes hindering) the ability of urban laymen to access and perform a much greater range of masculine identities than has previously been appreciated. By addressing the relationship between masculinity and prostitution, we stand to gain a richer understanding not just of the spectrum of identity formations that made up late medieval manhood, but of the ways in which gender inflected civic identity, as well as how gender discourse itself proliferated throughout urban life. Prostitution, I contend, not only helped to structure the sexual and social order of the late medieval city, but influenced the way a range of men understood their place within that order. In order to make these arguments, focusing upon the southern German-speaking cities of the empire, I examine here a type of source that has played only a minor role in the study of medieval prostitution but whose importance for the study of medieval masculinity is growing—namely, literary fiction.
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Reading Rape
Reading Rapeexamines how American culture talks about sexual violence and explains why, in the latter twentieth century, rape achieved such significance as a trope of power relations.
Through attentive readings of a wide range of literary and cultural representations of sexual assault--from antebellum seduction narratives and \"realist\" representations of rape in nineteenth-century novels toDeliverance, American Psycho, and contemporary feminist accounts--Sabine Sielke traces the evolution of a specifically American rhetoric of rape. She considers the kinds of cultural work that this rhetoric has performed and finds that rape has been an insistent figure for a range of social, political, and economic issues.
Sielke argues that the representation of rape has been a major force in the cultural construction of sexuality, gender, race, ethnicity, class, and indeed national identity. At the same time, her acute analyses of both canonical and lesser-known texts explore the complex anxieties that motivate such constructions and their function within the wider cultural imagination. Provoked in part by contemporary feminist criticism,Reading Rapealso challenges feminist positions on sexual violence by interrogating them as part of the history in which rape has been a convenient and conventional albeit troubling trope for other concerns and conflicts.
This book teaches us what we talk about when we talk about rape. And what we're talking about is often something else entirely: power, money, social change, difference, and identity.
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