Queer Theory
Critics who bring together literary studies with popular culture are part of this practice.
What is cultural materialism?
Andrew-An is Vietnamese-American in the states and Viet-kieu in Vietnam, terms which are signs of this.
What is hybridity?
Throughout Borderlands, Anzaldúa reclaims the meaningful ties that Indigenous women have with the land. Anzaldúa is an early practitioner of this intersectional approach.
What is ecofeminism?
Anh insists that her Hien and Sean are roommates. She is deeply influenced by this cultural assumption.
What is compulsory heterosexuality?
Before commodities and exchange values, people used the things they made and these objects had this.
What is use value?
New historicists differ from old historicists (as Parker explains it) because rather than try to ignore that we only see history through the lens of the present, they embrace that fact with this concept.
What is presentism?
Anzaldúa defines this space as "a vague and undetermined place created by the emotional residue of an unnatural boundary"
What is a borderland?
Often text assume readers know what certain references mean such as Larsen's to the Rhinelander case in Passing. The text sets up this kind of reader.
What is the implied reader?
Pham describes suitcases full of plastic toys to illustrate our commodity driven culture, leading to this concept from Marx.
What is commodity fetish?
When Audrey Jaffe compares the language the sociologist Mayhew uses about beggars to how Conan Doyle describes beggars in "The Man with the Twisted Lip," she shows how knowledge is constructed using two types of this.
What is discourse?
The intention of Coca-cola in Vietnam is really a new form of colonialism, disguised as globalization, but referred to by critics as this.
What is neocolonialism?
Most of the time, the frame narrative presents Watson as the narrator of the Holmes stories. But sometimes he is depicted reading an old story and thus he becomes this.
What is the narratee?
When Irene Adler dresses as a boy and Chi refuses to conform to expectations about women's clothing and body language both illustrate this idea from Judith Butler's idea about gender and sexuality.
What is performativity?
Marx argues and Pham demonstrates how commodification reduces people--in Pham's memoir women--to things that intensify their alienation from society, a practice that Marx called this.
What is reification or thingification?
New historicists look at historical references in literature to see how they reflect this, the belief system.
What is ideology.
Anzaldúa's theory of mestiza consciousness has origins in this theory by Du Bois.
What is double consciousness?
In this classroom we read all these works differently than we probably would read them on our own. We use particular approaches and theories and thus create this.
What is an interpretative community?
Many queer critics analysis the finale of Passing as a moment when Irene acts out this concept.
What is homosexual/ lesbian panic?
When characters are passively and unconsciously drawn into dominant social assumptions, they experience this process.
What is interpellation?
In his impatience with other Vietnamese Americans, Pham reduces them to physical characteristics that results in this.
What is racialization?
Anzaldúa's work is stepped in a passion for the land and for reclaiming the natural world. Those in this movement value her contributions to literature.
What is environmental justice?