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Page 190
... mother : she is either a phantom or a taboo sex object . Jimmy tells Renee that his mother is dead ; Renee repeats the remark to her dresser ; Rose speculates that Renee herself is a ghost . The only compliment Jimmy pays Renee on her ...
... mother : she is either a phantom or a taboo sex object . Jimmy tells Renee that his mother is dead ; Renee repeats the remark to her dresser ; Rose speculates that Renee herself is a ghost . The only compliment Jimmy pays Renee on her ...
Page 243
... mother's action as an alternative , unconventional baptism : not drowning , but ducking . Through the surprising adverb ' tenderly ' the violence one would normally associate with such an act is deflected from the baby back upon the mother ...
... mother's action as an alternative , unconventional baptism : not drowning , but ducking . Through the surprising adverb ' tenderly ' the violence one would normally associate with such an act is deflected from the baby back upon the mother ...
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... mothers are fallible , even the Mother of God , they are vastly preferable to the fathers , lay or clerical . While I doubt if this amounts to a recovery of local kitsch as resistance , at least not the kind of resistance that David ...
... mothers are fallible , even the Mother of God , they are vastly preferable to the fathers , lay or clerical . While I doubt if this amounts to a recovery of local kitsch as resistance , at least not the kind of resistance that David ...
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and the Politics of Empathy | 13 |
Anticolonial Metaphors | 99 |
Language and Race in Joyce and his Successors | 132 |
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