Renouncing relations and the amputated identity
Sunday, May 5th, 2013
Of everything we’ve read this semester, I have to admit that Middlesex has been the least gripping for me. Maybe it’s the pace, Cal’s voice, switching from “Angles in America,” predominantly dialogue, to lengthy prose, or maybe it’s something in me–my disintegrated family, my hurting heart–that makes it the wrong book to read at the […]
Renouncing relations and the amputated identity
Tags: alliance, Family, Identity, Jeffrey Eugenides, kinship, Middlesex, self
Posted in May 7, Sophia Curran | No Comments »
Nobody Puts Cohn in a Corner
Monday, April 22nd, 2013
In Act 2 Scene 9, Roy Cohn makes an interesting observation about the power of labels. When his doctor tries to get him to openly admit to being homosexual he refuses adamantly and responds, “Like all labels they tell you one thing and one thing only: where does an individual so identified fit in the […]
Nobody Puts Cohn in a Corner
Tags: AIDS, Angels in America, Identity, Roy Cohn
Posted in April 23, Rachel Kisty | 1 Comment »
