Julia Alvarez’s novel "In the Name of Salome" weaves together the life and spirit of Salome Urena‚ and her daughter‚ Salome Camila‚ through a journey of political turbulence in the Dominican Republic. Throughout her life‚ Salome describes the chaotic days of rebellions and the calmness of transitory peace between political powers. The book trails the history of the Dominican Republic through Salome‚ voiced through her daughter Camila‚ whose history weaves together her mother’s life and her country’s
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Of all the Mirabel sisters‚ Minerva is by far the most confrontational. She has no fear and stands up to anyone‚ no matter what his or her position of power is. Often her rash actions are a hindrance to her purpose. Additionally‚ her purpose changes constantly‚ making it near impossible for people to control her. As Minerva changes from a loyal servant to a rebel‚ some things do not change. Minerva is highly confrontational and as a result will fight any fight‚ though the revolution is just a convenient
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Analysis of “Prayer” by Carol Ann DuffyLouise Erdrich Yue Jiang 105034154 The Prayer‚ written in 1993 by‚ Carol Ann DuffyLouise Erdrich‚ has a close relationship with Julia Kristeva’s essay “Revolution in Poetic Language”. According to psychoanalysis‚ when people are babies‚ they are irrational and emotional. All their need is to be cared for. Their needs should be demandedmet‚ either for food‚ or caring or other things. A baby considers the person who offers satisfies them this need
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================== Language in India www.languageinindia.com ISSN 1930-2940 Vol. 13:3 March 2013 ==================================================================== Abstract This paper is a feministic analysis of Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll’s House in Julia Kristeva’s perspective of semiotic and symbolic language. The focus of the paper is to expose the patriarchy and its ruthless exploitation of women. In the light of Kristeva’s semiotic / symbolic language modes appropriate sentences‚ clauses‚ phrases
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On May 8th‚ 1373‚ an anchoress named Julian of Norwich asked God for a sickness that would bring her close to death in order to gain a “more trew minde” of Christ’s crucifixion (Julian of Norwich 53). Through bodily visions of the Passion‚ Julian yearns to gain a better understanding of Christ’s “bodily peynes” and thus to “suffer with Him” (48-49‚ 50). In these visions‚ Julian witnesses several grotesque events during Christ’s crucifixion: the crown of thorns piercing Christ’s skin and causing him
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female disparity in language and text‚[2] is a strain of feminist literary theory that originated in France in the early 1970s and included foundational theorists such as Hélène Cixous‚ Monique Wittig‚ Luce Irigaray‚[3] Chantal Chawaf‚[4][5] and Julia Kristeva‚[6][7] and also other writers like psychoanalytical theorist Bracha Ettinger‚[8][9] who joined this field in the early 1990s.[10] Generally‚ French feminists tended to focus their attention on language‚ analyzing the ways in which meaning is produced
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Cortes and Las Casas in Tzvetan Todorov’s The Conquest of America: The Question of the Other. -- Tzvetan Todorov was born in Stalinist Bulgaria and came to France in the early 1960s. His personal experience of the internal “otherness” which Julia Kristeva describes as “strangers to ourselves”‚ lead him to explore the American encounter which was a “unique event in the history of humanity” in that two continents‚ which had been oblivious to each other’s existence‚ came into a sudden and violent
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Parihar 1 Shaily Parihar 15th June 2010 There is No Hope of Doing a Perfect Research Oxford Dictionary defines „research‟ as “the systemic investigation into and study of materials‚ sources‚ etc.‚ in order to establish facts and reach new conclusions; an endeavour to discover new or collate old facts etc. by the scientific study of a subject or by a course of critical investigation”. Written in a technical jargon‚ a research report involves great investment of time and is an outcome of rigorous
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1984):61–77. Johnson‚ Greg. "Gilman ’s Gothic Allegory: Range and Redemption in ‘The Yellow Wallpaper. ’" Studies in Short Fiction 26.4 (Fall 1989): 521–30. Powers of Horror: An Essay on Abjection. Trans. Leon S. Roudiez. New York: Columbia UP‚ 1982. Kristeva‚ Julia. Desire in Language: A Semiotic Approach to Literature and Art. New York: Columbia UP‚ 1980. Tripathi‚ Vanashree. "Charlotte Perkins Gilman ’s ‘The Yellow Wallpaper ’: A Gynograph." Indian Journal of American Studies 27.1 (Winter 1997): 65–69
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even before) birth. There is no knowledge to gain about “sex” before “gender”. The categorizing/labeling socio-cultural “norm” and the question how it can be changed has been delt with by a wide range of critics‚ among them Judith Butler‚ Julia Kristeva‚ and
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