Canon Trouble: Intertextuality and Subversion in Queer as Folk

GENDER TROUBLE GENDER TROUBLE Feminism and the Subversion of Identity

Gender Trouble was originally published in the Routledge book series Thinking Gender, edited by Linda J. Nicholson. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilized in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permi...

Queer theory and change. Towards a pragmatic approach to resistance and subversion in media research on gay and lesbian identities

This paper wants to challenge the tendency in media studies on gay and lesbian identities to remain within two dominant paradigms: the essentialist or the post-structuralist traditions. Consequently, we will elaborate on the question: if media research emphasizes social change, should it mainly adopt a political and strategic identity claim which refers to essentialism, or, should it acknowledg...

Causation as Folk Science

John D. Norton

AS GOOD AS IT GETS Queer Theory and Critical Disability

Fabricating Unease: Intertextuality,

The subject matter of the nation is a usual staple on the menu of postcolonial Nigerian fiction. In this sense, the repertoire of Chinua Achebe’s art echoes an incurable preoccupation with Nigeria’s postcolonial condition as a nation. Also, this paper explores the centrality of intertextuality in the production of Achebe’s fiction, primarily his political novel about crisis plaguing intellectua...