The Androgynous Author
Sunday, May 5th, 2013
In last week’s class, Lee proposed a great question that we didn’t talk too much about, so I’ve decided to use it as the launch point for this week’s readings (particularly that of the last two books of Middlesex). The question was something along these lines: Is it important for an author to have an […]
The Androgynous Author
Tags: androgyny, Foucault, Jeffrey Eugenides, Middlesex, Scientia-Sexualis, Truth
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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
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“If you see something, say something”
Tuesday, April 30th, 2013
While reading Middlesex, a certain quote, the origin of which I cannot place, kept popping into my head: “We accept the love we think we deserve.” Our sense of deserving in life is shaped the by the shame we cannot overcome. The characters in Eugenides’ novel each negotiate the embodiment of this feeling, preoccupied by […]
“If you see something, say something”
Tags: incest, Jeffrey Eugenides, love, Middlesex, Shame, surveillance
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