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Pashmina
Indian-American teen, Priyanka \"Pri\" Das, attempts to reconnect with her mother's homeland through a magical pashmina shawl. Presented in comic book format.
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Resisting Colonial Violence: Investigating Transhuman Bodies, ability and De/Colonialization in Nisi Shawl's Everfair
Nisi Shawl's novel Everfair addresses the suffering of the Congolese population by King Leopold of Belgium and turns a history of oppression into a tale of resistance. This analysis celebrates this resistance by unpacking the role of transhuman bodies in relation to (dis)ability within the framework of de/colonialization.
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In Search Of
While Morrison explicitly looks at the process of how othering is inherent in identity formation in American literature, Puar considers how it happens in legislation, policing, and other dominions of the nation-state. Morrison considers how the \"Africanist presence\" embodies the fears and desires of white writers, while Puar considers how ostensibly-liberal movements leverage anti-Muslim rhetoric in order to gain political capital. Puar looks specifically at how the category of \"queer\" shifts in order to uphold certain (white) dominances. Pulling together Morrison's model of analysis of fiction and Puar's model of analysis of queer movements, what's happening in the books written by American white gay woman authors in the 20th and early 21st century?
Dissertation
The First Strawberries in India: Cultural Portability in Victorian Greater Britain
This article examines a deep-seated Victorian preoccupation with the ways that portable property becomes the vector for the transplantation of national culture and individual identity. It argues that England's empire, the territory Charles Dilke labeled \"Greater Britain,\" was the forcing bed from which cultural portability emerged as a new way of imagining self, community, and nation. A range of Anglo-Indian texts-among them Julia Maitland's \"Letters from Madras\", Emily Eden's \"Up the Country\", and the anonymous 1873 \"Overland, Inland, and Upland\"-suggest that self-styled exiles from England cultivated a connection with their fellow expatriates through objects and practices transported to the colonies from England. These mobile containers of Britishness strengthened settlers' bond to their alma mater, even as they reminded them of their distance from home. The long-distance attachments thus reified by cultural portability allowed Anglo-Indians to draw a cordon of inattention that separated them from their Indian surroundings and to engage in the willful fiction that life in India was merely a continuation of the English experience. In this way, portable repositories of mobile memory in Victorian Britain served to unify an otherwise disparate global community.
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Voicing a New Midrash: Women's Holocaust Writing as Jewish Feminist Response
This paper explores women's Holocaust writing as feminist Midrashic post-Holocaust response. Emil Fackenheim's argument that Midrash is a potential form of response to the Holocaust is a springboard for thinking critically about Jewish feminist responses to the Holocaust. Reading women's Holocaust writing in this way exposes themes that mark Jewish feminist post-Holocaust response while also extending and enhancing that response. Three key examples of women's Holocaust writing are read as Midrash: Judith Isaacson's Seed of Sarah, Cynthia Ozick's \"The Shawl,\" and Ilona Karmel's An Estate of Memory. Spanning fiction and memoir, these familiar narratives highlight key themes of gender, embodiment, maternity, relationality, sexual vulnerability, and violence. [PUBLICATION ABSTRACT]
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