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Racial Grief and Melancholic Agency
(The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2009)
This paper reflects on how the relationship between embodiment and agency might be illuminated through developments in psychoanalytic theory on racialization and racism. A recent interdisciplinary study by Anne Anlin Cheng ...
Appetizing loss: Anorexia as an experiment in living
(Taylor & Francis, 2006-08-21)
This paper turns upside-down the commonly held assumption that anorexia nervosa is inherently destructive or counter-productive. The author delves beneath the façade of anorexia’s main symptom, self-starvation, to explore ...
Remembering the Air India disaster: Memorial and counter-memorial
(Taylor & Francis, 2009-04-20)
Excitable speech: Judith Butler, Mae West and sexual innuendo
(Springer, 2001-04)
Working with Judith Butler's Excitable Speech: A Politics of the Performative, this essay pursues a series of questions on the performativity of speech acts, using sexual innuendo as an example. As performed by the provocative ...