L’ethnicité comme pièce rapportée et ravaudage du moi dans le roman juif-lesbien américain

Catherine Mavrikakis

doi:10.7202/501170ar

L’ethnicité comme pièce rapportée et ravaudage du moi dans le roman juif-lesbien américain

Études littéraires ◽

10.7202/501170ar ◽

2005 ◽

Vol 29 (3-4) ◽

pp. 49-59

Author(s):

Catherine Mavrikakis

Keyword(s):

Sarah Schulman ◽

Leslie Feinberg

Cet article cherche à rendre compte de l'ethnicité à l'oeuvre dans le roman juif-lesbien-américain. À partir de Stone Butch Blues de Leslie Feinberg et d' Empathy de Sarah Schulman, nous analyserons l'articulation du lesbianisme à la judéité afin de parvenir à mieux définir ce que peut être l'appartenance « fictionnelle » à la communauté ou à l'histoire juive lorsque le roman se propose comme lieu d'avènement aux États-Unis d'une double marginalité. La question qui sous-tend le travail est celle de la différence entre le sentiment d'appartenance et le sentiment d'identité.

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Troubled Times: Andrea Freud Loewenstein Interviews Sarah Schulman

The Women s Review of Books ◽

10.2307/4020814 ◽

1990 ◽

Vol 7 (10/11) ◽

pp. 22

Author(s):

Andrea Freud Loewenstein ◽

Sarah Schulman

Keyword(s):

Sarah Schulman

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Losing Real Life: James Baldwin and the Ethics of Trauma

James Baldwin Review ◽

10.7227/jbr.4.9 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 4 (1) ◽

pp. 114-127

Author(s):

Mikko Tuhkanen

Keyword(s):

Common Good ◽

Real Life ◽

James Baldwin ◽

Native Son ◽

The Common Good ◽

Present Essay ◽

Sarah Schulman ◽

The World ◽

The Common ◽

The Cost

This essay proposes that we turn to James Baldwin’s work to assess the cost of, and think alternatives to, the cultures of traumatization whose proliferation one witnesses in contemporary U.S. academia. Beginning with some recent examples, the essay briefly places these cultures into a genealogy of onto-ethics whose contemporary forms arose with the reconfiguration of diasporic histories in the idioms of psychoanalysis and deconstructive philosophy in 1990s trauma theory. Baldwin speaks to the contemporary moment as he considers the outcome of trauma’s perpetuation in an autobiographical scene from “Notes of a Native Son.” In this scene—which restages Bigger Thomas’s murderous compulsion in Native Son—he warns us against embracing one’s traumatization as a mode of negotiating the world. In foregoing what Sarah Schulman has recently called the “duty of repair,” such traumatized engagement prevents all search for the kind of “commonness” whose early articulation can be found in Aristotle’s query after “the common good” (to koinon agathon). With Baldwin, the present essay suggests the urgency of returning to the question of “the common good”: while mindful of past critiques, which have observed in this concept’s deployment a sleight-of-hand by which hegemonic positions universalize their interests, we should work to actualize the unfinished potential of Aristotle’s idea. Baldwin’s work on diasporic modernity provides an indispensable archive for this effort.

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Stone Butch Celebration: A Transgender-Inspired Revolution in Academia

Harvard Educational Review ◽

10.17763/haer.66.2.46r7n64515203412 ◽

1996 ◽

Vol 66 (2) ◽

pp. 198-216 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Wendy Ormiston

Keyword(s):

Gender Bias ◽

Liberal Arts ◽

Liberal Arts College ◽

Coalition Building ◽

Gender Theory ◽

Leslie Feinberg

Wendy Ormiston and her senior classmates at a small liberal arts college asked the school's president to invite transgender author Leslie Feinberg to deliver their commencement address. They were shocked and angry when that request was denied because the administration considered Feinberg's message in appropriate for a commencement speech. In this article, Ormiston relates how she joined with other classmates to protest the president's decision and take action to bring Feinberg to campus to speak at their commencement. Ormiston weaves her story of activism and coalition-building around the particular issues of gender theory and transgender activism that she learned from Feinberg's book Stone Butch Blues, which had been assigned in one of her courses. In this way she connects her own struggle with the larger themes of gender bias and equity.

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